radioshack
Noun
Meaning
radioshack (plural radioshacks)
Alternative form of radio shack
Examples
A new company called T2 Enterprises now continues using the old T2 Retail web presence as an exclusively on-line retailer stocking a range of RadioShack products and other electronics.
By 1980 InfoWorld described RadioShack as "the dominant supplier of small computers". citation Adam Osborne in 1981 described Tandy as "one of the great enigmas of the industry".
RadioShack later sold an adapter card allowing installation of a "Plus Card" into a standard ISA slot, such as those in the larger Tandy 1000 models.
It sounded much like twelve simultaneous PC speakers would have except for each channel having amplitude control, and failed to sell well, even after Creative renamed it the Game Blaster a year later, and marketed it through RadioShack in the US.
I would lump together three important machines: Commodore PET, RadioShack TRS80 and Apple II as leading the real personal-computer revolution.”
The RadioShack brand is owned by a company formed in its first of two recent bankruptcies.