{"id":594,"date":"2009-10-05T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2009-10-05T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T20:32:40","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-trs-80-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/594\/retro-scan-of-the-week-trs-80-propaganda","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> TRS-80 Propaganda For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs80_comic_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs80_comic_small.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Shack TRS-80 Science Fair Story of Electronics Comic Book - 1983\/1984\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>TRS-80 computers are clearly changing the world.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Growing up in the 1980s, I was no stranger to free educational materials designed to promote commercial products.  Here&#8217;s such an example from Radio Shack: <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs80_comic2_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">The Science Fair Story of Electronics<\/a>, a colorful comic book that spares no opportunity to introduce the Tandy\/Radio Shack brand to the consumers of tomorrow.  (For those who might not be familiar with it, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RadioShack\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Shack<\/a> is a chain of electronics retail stores in the US.)<\/p>\n<p>If you click on the picture above, you&#8217;ll see a two-page spread from the comic that extols the benefits of (TRS-80) computers and briefly retells computer history from a decidedly Radio Shack perspective.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From &#8216;<a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs80_comic2_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">The Science Fair Story of Electronics<\/a>,&#8217; Spring 1984 Edition (Printed Fall 1983) ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Have you owned or used any Radio Shack \/ Tandy \/ TRS-80 computers?  If so, which ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRS-80 computers are clearly changing the world. Growing up in the 1980s, I was no stranger to free educational materials designed to promote commercial products. Here&#8217;s such an example from Radio Shack: The Science Fair Story of Electronics, a colorful comic book that spares no opportunity to introduce the Tandy\/Radio Shack brand to the consumers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}