TANDY SHOWCASE: Preserving the past - Tandy, Radio Shack and related things.
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Radio Shack: Computers in Education
Recently we acquired a set of 35mm slides, which contain a two-part presentation for Computers in Education. Released by Radio Shack in 1981, the initiative was focused on educators and school districts to identify and support the growing needs for computer education in schools.
The slides in Presentation 1 have succumbed to fading in their 40+ year existence, while Presentation 2 slides are still in full-color.
Research
Upon receiving the slides, we conducted additional research to learn more about the initiative. This led us to Dr. Paul Kimmelman, a life-long educator and author of several articles in the 1980s about computers in education, including this Radio Shack initiative. We are working with Dr. Kimmelman to scan and archive his collection of articles & artifacts and will present them here soon.
Breakthrough
While working through some archives of his own, our friend and fellow collector Joel Hilliard of (AByteBehind.Com) discovered this cassette that was randomly included in a non-related collection he acquired. Sure enough, this is the audio soundtrack to accompany the slides in the Presentation 1 carousel above. Joel scanned the slide images & digitized this audio, allowing us to combine the two into a single digital presentation, perhaps for the first time.
We have also located the original brochure sent from Tandy/Radio Shack, to educators announcing the program.
Scroll down to view the brochure and video.
There's more...
While conducting our research on the Radio Shack Educational slides, we actually discovered another collector, here in Texas, that has the 16mm filmstrip & accompanying audio cassette. We are working with this gentleman & hopefully will have his media preserved in the Showcase in the near future.
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