[1][2][3] John Vinson Roach II was born on November 22, 1938, in Stamford, Texas, and moved to Fort Worth at the age of four.
[4] His mother, Agnes Margaret Roach nee Handon, was a nurse and his father owned a grocery store in Fort Worth.
[1] Roach studied physics and mathematics at Texas Christian University and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1961.
[5] After working for two years at the Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, he returned to the university and earned a master’s in business administration in 1965.
[8] To write the software code for the TRS-80, Tandy hired eventual Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen.