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* The Tandy / RadioShack Model 100 is still widely collected and used as one of the earliest examples of a truly portable computer.
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The Aster computer could use the software written for the popular Tandy TRS-80 computer while fixing many of the problems of that computer, but it could also run CP / M software, with a big amount of free memory ( Transient Program Area, TPA ) and a full 80 × 25 display, and it could be used as a Videotext terminal.
After the Aster having been a few years on the Market Tandy released its own improved model, the TRS-80 Model 3 computer which solved many of the same problems that the Aster also had solved, but the model 3 still did not fully support CP / M as the Aster did.
The 1990s, though, were a turbulent time for graphics development, as the computer industry was collapsing, with long-time computer makers such as Tandy / Radio Shack, Atari, and Commodore / Amiga disappearing, and the PC and Macintosh markets were fighting for dominance.
At its introduction, the 68000 was first used in high-priced systems, including multiuser microcomputers like the WICAT 150, early Alpha Microsystems computers, Sage II / IV, Tandy TRS-80 Model 16, and Fortune 32: 16 ; single-user workstations such as Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 Series 200 systems, the first Apollo / Domain systems, Sun Microsystems ' Sun-1, and the Corvus Concept ; and graphics terminals like Digital Equipment Corporation's VAXstation 100 and Silicon Graphics ' IRIS 1000 and 1200.
In a few instances, a slash and a number or additional letters were appended to these letters ( e. g. Tandy 1000 TL / 2, Tandy 1000 RL / HD ).
The ADC / DAC, which became known as the " Tandy DAC " in games that supported it, was broadly similar in function to sound devices which connected to the parallel port ( such as the Disney Sound Source ), but unlike those devices it was integrated onto the motherboard, supported DMA transfers and could sample at frequencies up to 48 kHz.
The Tandy 1000 TL and TL / 2 use 8 MHz Intel 80286 processors, whereas the TL / 3 uses a 10 MHz 80286.
( Earlier Tandy 1000 models, like IBM PC and PC / XT systems, used DIP switches for startup configuration settings.
Driving Miss Daisy also won three Golden Globe Awards ( Best Picture, Best Actor Morgan Freeman, and Best Actress Jessica Tandy ) in the Comedy / Musical genre.
Both Tandy / RadioShack and HP also produced portable computers of varying designs during this period.
Taylor starred in Alfred Hitchcock's horror / thriller The Birds ( 1963 ) with Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy and Suzanne Pleshette.
Tandy and RadioShack
After a struggle over the company, which saw the Hinckley name dropped, Tandy made another change in 1963, when it bought the ailing RadioShack.
The complex was formerly known as Tandy Center and served as the corporate headquarters for RadioShack ( formerly Tandy Corporation ) for many years.
In 2001, the RadioShack Corporation sold the Tandy Center to another company, and made plans to construct a new corporate headquarters a few blocks away on the Trinity River.
The TRS-80 MC-10 microcomputer is a lesser-known member of the TRS-80 line of home computers, produced by Tandy Corporation in the early 1980s and sold through their RadioShack chain of electronics stores.
The Rainbow was a monthly magazine for the TRS-80 Color Computer by the Tandy Corporation ( now RadioShack ).
Tandy and Model
The original prototype TRS-80 Model I that was demonstrated for Charles Tandy to sell the idea ran Li-Chen's BASIC.
Next, Inspiration Software created a line of products for the Tandy Model 100, the original notebook computer, which was used primarily by outside sales staff, writers and editors.
Shortly afterward, Kyocera introduced one of the first portable, battery-powered laptop computers, sold in the U. S. as the Tandy Model 100, which featured an LCD screen and telephone-modem data transfer capability.
Other Tandy offerings, such as the TRS-80 line, are also very popular, and early systems, like the Model I, in good condition can command premium prices on the vintage computer market.
She signed with Tandy Anderson of Select Model Management London, and modeled for Coca-Cola, Italian Vogue, and posed topless in the 2003 Pirelli Calendar.
It also sold own-brand models, such as the System 80 which was compatible with the Tandy TRS-80 Model I, the Dick Smith Cat ( an Apple II clone ), the VZ-200 and VZ-300.
The last refresh to the product line was the Tandy 102, introduced in 1986 as a direct replacement for the Model 100, having the same software, keyboard and screen, and a nearly identical, but thinner, form factor.
For some time, the Black Widow lets Ty and Tandy live in her apartment, which was later attacked by a homicidal Life Model Decoy of Nick Fury.
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