RADIO SHACK was founded in 1921 by two brothers, Theodore and Milton Deutschmann. The goal of the company was to provide equipment for the then-nascent field of amateur, or ham radio. In 1962, Radio Shack was purchased by TANDY CORPORATION. In 2000, the Tandy Corporation name was dropped and the entity became the RADIOSHACK CORPORATION. The difference was in the spelling: RadioShack in one word against the 2 words of the original company name.
Detailed Museum records and historical inventory records share this manufacturer room. When an original inventory entry matches a detailed record, the detailed Museum record is canonical.
This manufacturer room is a documentation view. Individual physical machines, including duplicate examples, are tracked in the separate specimen registry.
This list is migrated from the preserved original website. Entries already documented in the Museum link to their detailed record; the remaining entries now have a modern historical-catalogue page while the original source stays untouched.
Historical source: Original Radio Shack page.