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Tandy and then
Microsoft did not sell Xenix directly to end users ; instead, they licensed it to software OEMs such as Intel, Tandy, Altos and SCO, who then ported it to their own proprietary computer architectures.
She then appeared on NBC television as Anna Stieman in A Boy Called Ciske, a Kraft Mystery Theatre production, in May 1958, and in a vignette entitled " Miracle in the Orphanage ", part of " The Christmas Tree ", a Hallmark Hall of Fame production, in December 1958 with fellow child actor Richard Thomas and veteran actors Jessica Tandy and Margaret Hamilton.
Cronyn and Tandy lived on Children's Bay Cay in the Bahamas, then at a lakeside estate in Pound Ridge, New York, and, finally, in Easton, Connecticut, in a two-story Dutch colonial house on five acres.
Tandy then took proceedings against the lord lieutenant for issuing a proclamation for his arrest ; although the action failed, it increased Tandy's popularity, and his expenses were paid by the Society of the United Irishmen.
According to John Devoy in 1924, Jerome James Collins founded what was then called the Napper Tandy Club in New York on June 20, 1867, Wolfe Tone's birthday, this club expanded into others and at one point at a picnic in 1870 was named the Clan na Gael by Sam Cavanagh.
Later, in 1972, Tandy was the bass player in the first live line-up of ELO, then switching to keyboards when Jeff Lynne decided that their live sound needed improvement.
David Luce of Moog was involved with the creation, but Paul Schreiber ( then employed by Tandy Systems Development ) was the designer.
The play was then produced for PBS in 1973 with José Pérez playing God, Bill Bixby playing Tandy, and Valerie Perrine as the blonde bombshell Meredith.
Other guests in attendance were Irish rebels James Bartholomew Blackwell, William Corbet and Napper Tandy, also there was the notorious American radical and intellectual Thomas Paine ( who had been invited to attend by Kimaine, then a political fugitive and pseudo-anarchist ).
Shortly afterwards, it was ported to a Microsoft Xenix – based Tandy 6000 microcomputer and re-written in MBASIC, and then re-written again in C by programmer Jon Boede.

Tandy and made
The Tandy name was dropped in May 2000, when RadioShack Corporation was made the official name.
After a struggle over the company, which saw the Hinckley name dropped, Tandy made another change in 1963, when it bought the ailing RadioShack.
This was done because changes in the market made it increasingly difficult for Tandy to make a profit on its computer line.
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.
Although the initial PC ports would only run on Tandy's PCs ( such as the Tandy 1000 ), the introduction of the true PC-compatible computers such as the Tandy 3000 resulted in the software later being made available for other compatibles.
She made her film debut in The Indiscretions of Eve ( 1932 ) in the starring role ( along with Jessica Tandy also making her debut ).
Once in Canada, she embarked on her film career as a screenwriter for children's films, she also made a few documentaries including, At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch ( 1975 ).
The Ultimate version of Tandy Bowen has made a cameo in Ultimate Spider-Man, running for and eventually succeeding in becoming school president.
A year later, Sierra released versions for the Tandy 1000 and standard PCs, which at last made the game a success.

Tandy and way
This was mainly due to the use of the function keys-as most non-Tandy PCs either did not come with an F12 button or with one that did not act in the same way as a Tandy F12 function key.

Tandy and with
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.
A Tandy 1000 HX with a Tandy DMP-133 dot-matrix printer
ELO's debut concert took place on 15 April 1972 at The Fox & Hounds Pub in Croydon, U. K. with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt ( horns, keyboards ), Wilfred Gibson ( violin ), Hugh McDowell ( cello ), Mike Edwards, Andy Craig ( cello ) and Richard Tandy on bass.
Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.
Lynne, Bevan and Tandy returned to the studio in 1985 as a three-piece ( with Christian Schneider playing saxophone on some tracks ) to record ELO's final album of the 20th century, Balance of Power, released early in 1986.
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.
Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.
The leather business continued, and eventually combined with The Leather Factory in 2000 to become Tandy Leather Factory.
All Tandy 1000 computers featured built-in Tandy video hardware with color graphics ( CGA compatible with enhancements ), enhanced sound ( based on one of several variants of the Texas Instruments SN76496 sound generator ), game ports compatible with those on the TRS-80 Color Computer, an IBM-standard floppy disk controller supporting two drives, and a parallel printer port, all integrated into the motherboard.
The earlier models of the Tandy 1000 had a composite video output, and could be used with a color or monochrome composite monitor, or a TV with an RF modulator.
Tandy bundled DeskMate, a graphical suite of consumer-oriented applications, with various Tandy 1000 models.
For most Tandy 1000 models other than the compact EX and HX that did not come already equipped with a hard drive, Tandy offered hard disk options in the form of " hardcards " that were installed in one of the computer's expansion slots and consisted of a controller and drive ( typically a 3. 5 " MFM or RLL unit with a Western Digital controller ) mounted together on a metal bracket.
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.

Tandy and three
Home-based PCs such as the Tandy 1000 allowed up to three channels of sound for the and commands.
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.
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 ).
While the Tandy 1000 had three XT-compatible expansion slots ( with some slight differences ), early Tandy memory upgrade boards took up two of the slots to get to.
The youngest of three siblings, Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in Hackney, London.
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.
The original 1930 artwork -- Nancy peeking into the abandoned bungalow -- was created by Russell H. Tandy, who also designed the frontispiece and three internals for the original version.
In July 1989 Ian Paice took part in George Harrison's recording session at Friar Park, which resulted in three songs " Cheer Down ", " Cockamamie Business " and " Poor Little Girl ", which also featured Jeff Lynne, Jim Horn and Richard Tandy among others.
On nine occasions since 1985, awards have been presented to duos or trios, including three married couples: lyricist Alan Jay Lerner & composer Frederick Loewe, actors Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy, musical-comedy duo Betty Comden & Adolph Green, the Nicholas Brothers ( Fayard & Harold ), actors Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Kander and Ebb ( John Kander & Fred Ebb ), actors Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, musicians Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey of The Who and the members of Led Zeppelin.
These computers, the Dragon 32 and Dragon 64, strongly resembled the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer (" CoCo ")— both followed a standard Motorola datasheet configuration for the three key components ( CPU, SAM and VDG ).
R. H. Tandy illustrated Nancy spying on the criminals in the original cover art, along with a frontispiece and three internal illustrations showing various elements of the story.
In March 2009, Woolworths Limited CEO Michael Luscombe confirmed the end of Powerhouse as a separate entity, also adding the companies third consumer electronics brand Tandy would be gradually phased out over the next three years as the stores leases end.

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