Remember CB Mania of the '70s?
      Who would have thought that within
      the recession year of 1975, a little
      item called a citizens band radio, that
      had been around for over 10 years,
      would become the nation's newest
      fad?  Sales of Radio Shack CB
      radios skyrocketed. See some
      Radio Shack CB memorabilia in the
      "Just For Fun" book.

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      Radio Shack TRS-80 Computer
      The TRS-80 ("T" for Tandy, "RS" for
      RadioShack, "80" for the Z-80 Zilog
      microprocessor) Model 1 computer
      was developed for less than $150,000
      (including tooling costs). Initial sales
      were optimistically projected to be
      1000 units. Who would have thought
      that sales of the Model 1 would quickly
      grow to 250,000 units? Click the link to
      see the first mention of the TRS-80 in
      a Radio Shack catalog in 1977.

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