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The Tandy 1000 is the first in a line of IBM PC compatible home computer systems produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its Radio Shack and Radio Shack Computer Center chains of stores. Introduced in 1984, the product line was aimed at providing affordable but capable systems for home computing or education, with some of its Tandy ...
Shirley started 25-year tenure at Radio Shack as a store department manager [1] in Boston before the company's acquisition by the Tandy Corporation in 1963. [2] Tandy Corporation founder Charles Tandy sent Shirley to open the first Radio Shack stores in California, then later sent him to Brussels, Belgium, to open the first European stores [3] as merchandising vice president. [1]
The Tandy 1400 LT is the first MS-DOS compatible laptop sold by Tandy Corporation. Introduced in November 1987, it had two 3.5 inch floppy drives and a flip-up monochrome LCD screen, powered by an internal battery.
Jan 2016 – Imation closed on the sale of its Memorex trademark and two associated trademark licenses to DPI Inc., a St. Louis-based branded consumer electronics company for $9.4 million. [ 14 ] Jan 2024 – Finest Brands, Inc. a Los Angeles-based brand management firm, announces its acquisition of the Memorex brand, its associated global ...
The Tandy-Kake, first on the market in 1931, later became the Kandy Kake, the most popular cake in the company's history, with nearly half a million baked and packaged each day. [ 4 ] In the 1970s and 80s, Tastykake sought to respond to the changing demographics and aging population of the region.
In 1970, the Tandy Corporation, Radio Shack's former parent company, purchased Allied Radio, the consumer division, along with Allied Electronics, the industrial division. [4] In 1999, Allied became the North American division of Electrocomponents. In 2016, Allied expanded into South America with a full-service office in Santiago, Chile, and in ...
Palm Computing, Inc., was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins, who later hired Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan, all of whom guided Palm to the invention of Palm Pilot.The company was started to write software for the Zoomer, a consumer PDA manufactured by Casio for Tandy.
DallasNews Corporation, formerly A. H. Belo Corporation (/ ˈ b iː l oʊ /), is a Dallas, Texas-based media holding company of The Dallas Morning News and Belo + Company.The current corporation was formed when Belo Corporation separated its broadcasting and publishing operations into two corporations (with the broadcasting division going to the "old" Belo; it was later purchased by Gannett ...