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radioshack.com. RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer which was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business. Its parent company, Radio Shack Corporation, was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962, shifting its focus from radio equipment to hobbyist electronic components.
The TRS-80 Model 4 is the last Z80-based home computer family by Radio Shack, sold from April 1983 through late 1991.
By 1990 growth at Tandy Corporation 's Radio Shack chain of electronics stores, and Tandy personal computers, had stalled. The company intended Incredible Universe to compete with rapidly growing electronic superstores like Circuit City, Best Buy, and CompUSA that were taking market share from Radio Shack. It hoped that customers would drive 40 miles to a store, so that one location could ...
The Americas division of RS Group was founded in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois by Simon "Sy" Wexler [2] as Allied Radio, the radio parts distribution arm of Columbia Radio Corporation (also founded by Wexler in 1921). [3] 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 ...
David J. Edmondson (born June 10, 1959) is an American businessman, known for his career at RadioShack and his termination as CEO for falsifying his educational background.
Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned leather -goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Tandy Leather was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store. By the end of the 1950s, under the tutelage of then-CEO Charles Tandy, the company expanded into the hobby market, making leather moccasins and coin purses, making huge ...
Realistic was a private label consumer electronics brand produced by RadioShack. Initially only a home audio equipment brand, its product line expanded to include CB radios, walkie-talkies, and video camcorders by the 1980s. The brand was discontinued in 1994, but revived for a short time in 2016 for use on Bluetooth devices sold by the chain.
The TV Scoreboard (sometimes called RadioShack TV Scoreboard) is a Pong -like dedicated home video game console manufactured in Hong Kong from 1976 through the early '80s and made by Tandy. [1][2] Distribution was handled exclusively by RadioShack.