TANDY CORPORATION was founded in 1919 by Norton Hinckley and Dave L. Tandy under the name "Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company". In 1950, the name was changed for Tandy Leathers. At the end of the 50s, Charles Tandy, decided to expand the activities to the hobby market. In 1955, Tandy Leathers was bought by the American Hide and Leather Company. In 1961 the company name was changed to Tandy Corporation . In 1962, they purchased Radio Shack. In 2000, the Tandy Corporation name was changed for 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.