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Company information:
Radio shack began in the year 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas by
Norton Hinckley and Dave L. Tandy (1889-1966). Radio
Shack continued to do quite well. It issued its first catalog in the early
1940s. In 1947, the company entered the growing high-fidelity market and
opened the nation's first audio showroom that provided comparisons of
speakers, amplifiers, turntables and phonograph cartridges. In the
mid-1950s, Radio Shack began selling its own private label product line
with the Realistic® brand name, a variation of Realist, which had been
used earlier. Radio Shack also manufactured old computers under the Tandy
corporation name back in the 1970s and 1980s. The Realistic name still
lives today.
More history and information is available at Radio
Shack's website.
Website:
http://www.radioshack.com
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