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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 ...
Tandy Leather began as a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas in 1919. [6] Norton Hinckley and Dave L. Tandy partnered to start the Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company and concentrated their efforts on selling sole leather and other supplies to shoe repair dealers in Texas. During World War II, civilian leather rationing ...
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. At its peak in 1999, Tandy operated over 8,000 RadioShack stores in the United ...
Tandy Corporation. Spouse (s) Gwen Purdy (Johnston) (?-1966) Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy m. 1969. Charles David Tandy (15 May 1918 – 4 November 1978) was the chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of the Tandy Corporation.
TRS-80 was a brand associated with several desktop microcomputer lines sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. It was first used on the original TRS-80 (later known as the Model I ), one of the earliest mass-produced personal computers. [1] However, Tandy later used the TRS-80 name on a number of different computer lines, many of which were technically unrelated to (and ...
City Place is a mixed-use facility featuring two 20-story buildings in central Fort Worth, Texas. The complex was formerly known as Tandy Center and served as the corporate headquarters for RadioShack (formerly Tandy Corporation) for many years, designed by Growald Architects of Fort Worth, Texas and built by Beck. [1] During the Tandy/RadioShack years, the complex included a mall and an ice ...
Career In 1967, he joined the Tandy Corporation, a conglomerate that owned Radioshack, as a data processing manager. [6] In the following years, he played a key role in the company’s decision to venture into the budding personal computer market.
History Tandy was founded in the United States in 1919 as Tandy Leather Company. In 1963, Tandy changed its business to electronics when it acquired control of RadioShack, a forty year old electronics business with nine stores and a mail order arm.