They weren't really late. In many people's minds IBM validated the concept of the PC.
replyWhen that happened I'd been working at Tandy (EU version of Radio Shack) for a while and even though we sold computers they were not taken serious until IBM came along and then suddenly we couldn't supply them fast enough.
replyWas Tandy only EU? In the TRS-80 days the name came up a lot, although maybe just because of the acronym ... 6809E was a good time
replyYes, that was the first time I had a 'proper' processor to play with. A Dragon 32 (CoCo clone from the UK).
replyI've never seen Tandy used outside of Europe but then again, I had not traveled as much then as now so it's definitely possible they used the brand on other continents as well. I wonder how many trees were cut for those catalogs :)
And AU. Dick Smith started out selling Tandy's, before switching to their own clones.
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