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Early history. Grid Systems Corporation was founded in late 1979 by John Ellenby, [1] who left his job at Xerox PARC and joined Glenn Edens, Dave Paulsen and Bill Moggridge to form one of Silicon Valley's first stealth companies. The company went public in March 1981. It was located at 47211 Lakeview Boulevard, Fremont, California, 94537.
History 1974–2009. JB Hi-Fi was established in the Melbourne suburb of Keilor East by John Barbuto in 1974, selling music and specialist hi-fi equipment. Barbuto sold the business in 1983 to Richard Bouris, David Rodd and Peter Caserta, who expanded JB Hi-Fi into a chain of ten stores in Melbourne and Sydney turning over $150 million by 2000, when they sold the majority of their holding to ...
Tandy Corporation (1919–2000), a leather supply company which became the RadioShack Corporation in 2000. Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company, name used from 1919–1956. TRS-80 Color Computer, rebranded as Tandy Color Computer, a series of computers first released in 1980. Tandy 2000, a computer released in 1983. Tandy 1000, a computer released in ...
High-end. Tandy Video II. History. Predecessor. Color Graphics Adapter. Successor. Enhanced Graphics Adapter. Tandy Graphics Adapter ( TGA, also Tandy graphics) is a computer display standard for the Tandy 1000 series of IBM PC compatibles, which has compatibility with the video subsystem of the IBM PCjr but became a standard in its own right.
The Tandy 10 Business Computer System was a short-lived product developed by Radio Shack in the late 1970s as a business-oriented complement to their TRS-80 Model I desktop computer. Released in 1978, the Tandy 10 was built for Radio Shack by Applied Digital Data Systems (ADDS), and was only sold by Radio Shack's dedicated computer center ...
David J. Edmondson was born June 10, 1959, in Methuen, Massachusetts. His mother Jeannette was a homemaker, and his adoptive father was a US soldier. [citation needed] Like most children of military families, Edmondson moved a great deal throughout his early life, including periods in Germany and Fort Jackson, South Carolina, before settling at ...
Sadie Tandy. Children. Vertner Woodson Tandy Jr. Vertner Woodson Tandy (May 17, 1885 – November 7, 1949) was an American architect. [1] He was one of the seven founders (commonly referred to as "The Seven Jewels") of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University in 1906. He was the first African American registered architect in New York State.
History 1983–1991: early years. AOL began in 1983, as a short-lived venture called Control Video Corporation (CVC), founded by William von Meister.Its sole product was an online service called GameLine for the Atari 2600 video game console, after von Meister's idea of buying music on demand was rejected by Warner Bros. Subscribers bought a modem from the company for $49.95 and paid a one ...