So my last post, my dad found his 3rd computer... he finally found his first computer!
Bonus: Back of the receipt has some additional purchases: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ed5e2cb-3a29-4a8d-9f0f-347cc41771f2.jpeg
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I wonder if there are any similarities between the Cardiff Company and the fictional Cardiff Electric from Halt and Catch Fire.
That is quite blatantly a take on Tandy, a leather company getting into the co.puter business.
RIP RadioShack
Cardiff Electric in the show was an amalgam of a bunch of '70s and '80s computer industry lore, from Apple getting their hands on their first 6502 CPUs from a barrel at a trade show, to Compaq clean-room reversing the IBM PC BIOS, and Commodore's Jack Tramiel being misled by a Tandy exec that laptops were a dead end business.
Why Tandy and not Compaq?
Did Compaq also start as an acquisition from a completely unrelated industry?Tandy was a leather goods company that purchased a hobby electronics chain, and started selling PC's.
Every city had dozens to hundreds of small PC integrators like this. Buy parts direct from Taiwan, pay some high school kids to assemble them after school, load on DOS and whatever else the customer ordered, slap your logo on the case, and send it out the door.
The fact that there's one with "Cardiff" in the name isn't a surprise.
That was my thought too