19 Jan
1999
19 Jan
'99
9:50 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jason Willgruber wrote:
It was definitely aluminum. The paint was chipping
off in a few places, and
it definitely weighed a good pound or more than my Tandy 1800. Could it
have been a model that GRiD made for another company (as the label on the
bottom stated)?
Anything's possible, but I've only seen the opposite: "made for GRiD by
X". Tandy acquired GRiD in 1988, so machines made since that time have
been unpure bastards for the most part, and the brand got a bit diluted. I
think GRiD operated pretty indepently for a few years after the
acquisition, so they were able to pull off a few cool machines like the
GRiDPads and the Convertibles (which later had an AST label when AST
bought Tandy's computer division).
-- Doug