{"id":9276,"date":"2012-08-06T06:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T11:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:05:34","slug":"trs-80-saves-metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/08\/06\/trs-80-saves-metropolis\/","title":{"rendered":"TRS-80 SAVES Metropolis!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Ricky Rotten<\/strong> sent me an article<\/a> celebrating the 35th anniversary of Radio Shack’s personal home computer the TRS-80<\/strong> also less-than-affectionately known as the TRaSh-80.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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TRS-80 image by Flominator<\/p><\/div>\n

TRS-80<\/strong><\/a> was a desktop computer sold through Tandy Corporation’s chain of Radio Shack<\/strong> stores in the late’70s\/early 80s. I remember seeing them in the stores, but I never had one and never remember playing with one. The Commodore 64<\/a> was more my speed.<\/p>\n

Radio Shack teamed up with DC Comics and published giveaway comic books to promote their marvelous mound of microchips. I never turned down a free comic.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Superman: The Computers That Saved Metropolis<\/strong> <\/em>was published in 1980 and given away at Radio Shack stores. I had not looked at this comic in years, and from the cover I assumed it was knocked off by steadfast and reliable Ross Andru. I was wrong.\u00a0 Surprisingly, it was drawn by Jim Starlin<\/strong> whose work I loved in Marvel Comics’ Captain Marvel<\/a>, and it was inked by Dick Giordano.<\/strong> I always loved Starlin’s style, but sadly, it looks like it was reigned in by the inker so it would look like DC’s house style and maintain the look of a typical Superman comic. Don’t mess with the brand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ricky Rotten sent me an article celebrating the 35th anniversary of Radio Shack’s personal home computer the TRS-80 also less-than-affectionately known as the TRaSh-80.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[335],"tags":[366,33,359,726,9,324,1860,1402,1861,1859],"class_list":["post-9276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-366","tag-1980s","tag-ad","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-computer","tag-radio-shack","tag-superman","tag-tandy","tag-trs-80"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2pC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9703,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/10\/analog-computer\/","url_meta":{"origin":9276,"position":0},"title":"Analog Computer?","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Isn't that a contradiction in terms? 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