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John Roach, Pioneer of the Personal Computer, Is Dead at 83

He helped make the home computer ubiquitous by introducing the fully 
assembled Tandy TRS-80, which was so novel at the time that it became 
a museum piece. 

He was instrumental in prodding Tandy to venture into the computer 
market. At the time, most small computers were sold as kits to be 
assembled by hobbyists, but Mr. Roach believed that consumers would 
welcome a model that they just needed to plug in.

His team presented the original TRS-80 prototype - cobbled together 
from a black-and-white RCA monitor, a keyboard and a cassette recorder
- to Tandy's chief executive, Charles Tandy, and to Lewis Kornfeld, 
the president of RadioShack, in January 1977.

It was my first "store bought" confuser.   Bv)=   

TRS-80 Model I / Level 2 ROMS

The TRS-80 was considered so novel that a model was later acquired for 
the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

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