Radio Shack abandons components

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Wed Nov 21 14:05:03 2001

>
> >Tandy Computers sold out to AST (who also bought Grid)...part of the
> >deal was that AST computers were sold at Radio Shack, the deal didn't
> >last that long. AST also sold out to their majority investor (Samsung?)
> >when they were nearly out of business. Unrelated is the
> >RadioShack-Compaq deal...similar to deal cut by Sprint-RadioShack.
>
> If I recall correctly, it was mid-1993 when the sale took
> place. AST didn't waste any time trimming what had been Tandy's
> computer arm, shutting down a lot of it in the process. I always
> liked AST's products, such as the SixPack Plus expansion boards. AST
> had some interesting ideas as to CPU upgradibility with their '386
> line as well.
>

It is always nice to see a company buy out another company just so they can
rape it for all its worth before throwing that companies technology in some
vault so no one else can use it.

Bryan
Received on Wed Nov 21 2001 - 14:05:03 GMT