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The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 – By Bradford Morgan White
From leather shoe bits to the TRS-80
The goal of Radio Shack was largely unchanged under Tandy’s ownership with that being to serve hobbyists, children, and those wishing to save some money buying cheaper stuff and modifying and accessorizing as they saw fit. Tandycrafts held Tandy Leather Company, American Handicrafts, Decorating and Crafts magazine, Color Tile, Magee, Merribee Needlearts, Woodie Taylor Vending, Automated Custom Food Services, Stafford-Lowdon, and Bona Allen. The prototype booted to a modified version Li-Chen Wang’s public domain Tiny BASIC that Leininger had put together for their purposes, and French wrote a simple tax program for demonstration.
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