17 Aug
2014
17 Aug
'14
9:43 a.m.
On 08/16/2014 01:40 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
It was cheap. You also would get a couple bad reels right out of a new box.
The WikiP timeline for the 80s is kind of interesting;
Apr 1981 - Burroughs acquires Memorex
Apr 1982 - Burroughs sells Memorex consumer brand to Tandy
May 1985 - Burroughs exits OEM disk drive business, selling sales and
service to Toshiba
Sep 1986 - Burroughs acquires Sperry and renames itself as Unisys
Dec 1986 - Unisys spins off Memorex Media, Telecommunications and
International businesses as Memorex International NV.
Jan 1988 - Memorex-Telex merger[7]
Dec 1988 - Unisys mainly shuts down large disk business and spins off
service and repair as Sequel.
I had not realized that Tandy owned the Memorex consumer brand. I do
remember that Ella Fitzgerald commercials, but that was from the 1970s.
Audio cassettes were one of those lipstick-on-a-pig innovations.
--Chuck