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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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.