Radio Shack makes good computers, but who wants a $3,000 machine with the word ”Shack” on it? That`s why Radio Shack computers now have the name ”Tandy,” the parent company of Radio Shack. Tandy makes ...

In the 80s, Radio Shack sold a line of Tandy personal computers in its stores. Tandy machines were sometimes mocked -- 1980's TRS-80 model was derided as the "Trash-80" by critics -- but they were ...

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Tandy Corp., the electronics giant with the small reputation, is suffering a midlife crisis. Because of its profitable Radio Shack stores, it’s the world’s largest specialty retailer of consumer ...

Radio Shack had a long history of buying things overseas, having their name slapped on them, and selling them in the United States. That was the case with the Tandy Pocket Computers, which were in ...

Each month we provide resource material from the GNM Archive that can be used in the classroom. This month we are looking at the Tandy portable computer and talking to Guardian journalist Maev Kennedy ...

RadioShack may have lost ground in recent years to online retailers, but the company was once the go-to place for the hottest tech gadgets. Over the years its ads have promoted whatever was the ...

He helped make the home computer ubiquitous by introducing the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80, which was so novel at the time that it became a museum piece. By Sam Roberts John Roach, a marketing ...