Inspired by @MrLizard's TRS-80 post (https://agnostic.com/post/245233/this-image-is-of-the-bedroom-my-dad-and-i-shared-as-a-home-office-for-our-shared-radio-shack-trs-8?cid=942871), I went looking for scans of old computer catalogues - and found this site, which has literally tons of them!
Hardcore geekporn: [radioshackcatalogs.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I don't think Tandy stocked my old beast of choice, the Sinclair QL. Great for it's time it introduced to the head wrecking concept of multitasking. They had a deducted software company bringing out many groundbreaking apps for it and I had a few really detailed phone chats with the founder. Dismayed to come across him again recently as an ultra-right Brexit nutjob 
Salo
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Dec 25, 2018
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Jnei:
I was in Tandy regularly back in those days and I don't recall ever seeing any Sinclair products in there - I wonder if Sinclair had their own distribution channels?
Salo:
@Jnei I'm pretty sure they didn't. Sinclair were available mail order and in some more mainstream less specialised outlets, which wasn't a bad marketing move considering how things evolved after that. The QL was a marketing disaster though. It was pushed at the same gaming crowd who bought the spectrum and it really wasn't that kind of machine.
I remember that computer on the shelves of the long ago dead local Radio Shack.
NoMagicCookie
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Dec 16, 2018
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I just came across the old movie "Wargames" the other day, and the technology was kind of hilarious to me 30+ years later.
pasha-one-nine
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Dec 16, 2018
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This is a weird trip down the memory lane. My first computer, IBM XT that I bought used from a friend. I had DOS running Wordperfect 5.1. I loved that machine and loved that program...
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