When Did Tandy Start Developing the Tandy 600?
While the 600 was introduced on October 28, 1985, it was probably in Tandys hands way before that. As of this time, all we have is speculation about when Tandy actually started to fancy the Tandy 600 – which may have been late 1984 – and it comes from a very interesting source. If you were to look at the Tandy 200 Owner’s, Multiplan, or Telecom manual cover, you will see a picture of a woman sitting in an airport concourse typing on a Tandy 200. Now look at the Tandy 600 manual cover. That is the same woman, the same concourse, and the same plane. Given her body and hand positions are changed and the hopeless state of tools to manipulate photographs digitally and realistically in 1985, it is very reasonable to conclude that the Tandy 200 and 600 were kicking around the labs – or at least the advertising department – at the same time. (You will also note that the Tandy 2000 is pictured running the same telecommunications program on each manual, too.) If you look closely at the 600 in th
