* 1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

The Tandy name was dropped in May 2000, when RadioShack Corporation was made the official name.

In 1983, Conroy sold O ' Sullivan Industries to Tandy Corporation.

In 1994, Tandy Corporation offered O ' Sullivan as a public company.

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** The Tandy Corporation TRS-80 Model I computer is announced at a press conference.

The Tandy 1000 was the first in a line of more-or-less IBM PC compatible home computer systems produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its Radio Shack chain of stores.

Eventually, in 1993, Tandy Corporation sold its computer manufacturing business to AST Computers, and all Tandy computer lines were terminated.

* Tandy Corporation, a leather supply company which became the RadioShack Corporation in 2000

** Tandy Leather Factory, founded in 1980, the residual portion of Tandy Corporation which sells leather supplies

Altos shipped a version for their Intel 8086 based computers early in 1982, Tandy Corporation shipped TRS-XENIX for their 68000-based systems in January 1983, and SCO released their port to the IBM PC in September 1983.

With the market proved by the earliest manufacturers, larger companies soon began to take interest, sometimes successfully ( Tandy Corporation, Hewlett-Packard ), sometimes not ( Texas Instruments, DEC ).

It was a clone of the TRS-80 MC-10, produced through a collaboration between Matra and Hachette in France and Tandy Corporation in the United States.

Manufacturers of these included Tandy / Radio Shack, Hewlett-Packard, Casio, and Sharp Corporation.

The TRS-80 name was also used for a pocket computer manufactured by Sharp Corporation for Tandy besides being the name of the TRS-80 personal computer.

Tandy Corporation produced a clone of the PCjr, the Tandy 1000.

By 1983 Bevan was expressing a desire to join Black Sabbath permanently and Lynne and Tandy were recording tracks for the Electric Dreams soundtrack under Jeff Lynne's name.

Though billed and marketed as an ELO album, the only returning member other than Lynne was Tandy, who performed on one track.

Former ELO member Tandy rejoined the band a short time afterwards for two television live performances: VH1 Storytellers and a PBS concert shot at CBS Television City, later titled Zoom Tour Live, that was released on DVD.

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.

Tandy was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store, and acquired RadioShack in 1963.

Computer City was a supercenter concept featuring name-brand computers, software and related products ; by the end of 1993, Tandy had 40 locations, including three in Europe.

* Who was Charles David Tandy?

Released in November 1984, the Tandy 1000 was followed by a series of models which appended two or three letters to the name, after a space ( e. g. Tandy 1000 EX, Tandy 1000 SX, Tandy 1000 TX, Tandy 1000 RL, Tandy 1000 RLX ).

This was done because changes in the market made it increasingly difficult for Tandy to make a profit on its computer line.

The original Tandy 1000 was a large computer almost the size of the, though with a plastic case over a steel lower chassis to reduce weight.

A later revision of the original Tandy 1000 model was the Tandy 1000A.

The Tandy 1000 HD was essentially an original Tandy 1000 with a hard disk option factory installed.

Tandy began in 1919 when two friends, Norton Hinckley and Dave L. Tandy, decided to start the Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company, which sold leather shoe parts to shoe repair shops in the Fort Worth area.

Tandy's son, Charles D. Tandy, turned it into a leathercraft company when shoe rationing in World War II almost killed the business, and later expanded into selling leather and tools to make such products as wallets.

The leather business continued, and eventually combined with The Leather Factory in 2000 to become Tandy Leather Factory.

After a struggle over the company, which saw the Hinckley name dropped, Tandy made another change in 1963, when it bought the ailing RadioShack.

In 1973, Tandy launched a subsidiary company called Coppercraft Guild, which sold solid copper knicknacks and housewares through a network marketing channel.

Tone did not feel himself bound by his agreement with the British government to abstain from further conspiracy ; and finding himself at Philadelphia in the company of Reynolds, Rowan, and Tandy, he went to Paris to persuade the French government to send an expedition to invade Ireland.

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.

After the Hickok company was taken over by the Tandy Corporation, the award was presented in larger cities such as Chicago or New York.

Gielgud followed up this triumph with a legendary production of Hamlet in which he both played the title role and directed a company that included Jessica Tandy, Jack Hawkins and a young Alec Guinness in one of his first professional roles as Osric.

The Canadian chain was originally owned by Radio Shack ( U. S .)' s parent company Tandy Corporation, but was later spun off, along with the rest of Tandy's international operations, as InterTAN.

The company became a separate entity from Tandy Corporation in 1986, and has since been reduced to being the parent company for the Canadian consumer electronics business only, divesting itself of the other properties during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Initially, two stores were opened, in Arlington, Texas, and Wilsonville, Oregon ; when these proved profitable, parent company Tandy decided to expand quickly, opening an additional 15 stores.

Founded about five years ago as a small workshop business, it has become the second largest manufacturer of small computers, after the Radio Shack division of the Tandy company.