What happened to Tandy?
Tandy Corporation has changed its name to Radio Shack. See section IV.A. for ways to contact them. In May 1993, Tandy sold its computer manufacturing facilities and the rest of its computer business to AST Research, which quickly closed the plants down. For a while, the desktop computers sold in Radio Shacks were made by AST, using Tandy’s old engineering staff, who had been transferred to the new company. Tandy’s laptops were mostly made in Japan, most by Panasonic, some by Seikosha, often with custom ROM’s. Tandy printers were generally made in Japan as well, generally with custom ROM’s. In May 1996, AST terminated its in-house software development efforts, and the remaining Tandy programmers scattered to the four winds (some were still left from the DeskMate days at that time). AST Research dissolved in 1999, and a new company called AST Computers, LLC acquired the intellectual property rights. AST Computers, in turn, is out of business now, so effectively nobody owns the rights to
