Sam Ismail wrote: No, though I think Radio Shack did resell them for a couple of years, likely relabeled. As was (and is) common with Radio Shack, though this last few years there's less relabeling. Back in the 80-86 period when I was with the company, the normal percentage was 40% of the products in a product line were manufactured by Tandy Corp. In computers, the ratio was higher, though almost all printers were relabels. Aside from the Pocket Computers, the first Radio Shack computer manufactured outside and relabeled was the 1200HD, built by Tandon, an XT clone with no redeeming value other than filling the gap until the 1000 series was functional -- the 1200HD had an incredible rate of motherboard replacement under warranty, charged against the managers of the selling stores -- I've heard rumors the buyer _was_ fired for it eventually. To the best of my knowledge that pattern held to the early '90s, though with increased influx of peripherals by other companies (many components of course were always from outside), until the hardware market became so unprofitable that Tandy sold the computer manufacturing capability to AST. (It's a pain to go into a Radio Shack store and find no computers on displays except Aptivas or whatever the brand of the month might be. It's worse to find nobody who knows that Radio Shack was once a serious and innovative computer manufacturer -- I've had better luck there at Computer City, where a lot of long-time Radio Shack folks who's been around migrated when Tandy opened that chain -- who knows where they'll go with the sale of Computer City to the incompetents at CompUSA?) I am no longer a stockholder in Tandy Corporation. -- Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/> When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright

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