Tandy may refer to:
Companies
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Tandy Corporation
Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Tandy Leather was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store. By the end of the 1950s, under the tutelage of then-CEO Charles Tandy, ...
(1919–2000), a leather supply company which became the RadioShack Corporation in 2000
** Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company, name used from 1919–1956
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TRS-80 Color Computer
The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer, later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer and sometimes nicknamed the CoCo, is a line of home computers developed and sold by Tandy Corporation. Despite sharing a name with the earlier TRS-80, the Color Co ...
, rebranded as Tandy Color Computer, a series of computers first released in 1980
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Tandy 2000
The Tandy 2000 is a personal computer introduced by Radio Shack in September 1983 based on the 8 MHz Intel 80186 microprocessor running MS-DOS. By comparison, the IBM PC XT (introduced in March 1983) used the older 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 pr ...
, a computer released in 1983
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Tandy 1000
The Tandy 1000 is the first in a line of IBM PC workalike home computer systems produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its Radio Shack and Radio Shack Computer Center chains of stores.
Overview
In December 1983, an executive with Tandy C ...
, a computer released in 1984
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Tandy Electronics
Tandy Electronics was an electronics retailer in Australia originally operated by the American Tandy Corporation, later International Tandy (InterTAN), acquired in 2001 by Woolworths Group. The brand ceased to exist after it was phased out by ...
(1973–2011), former Australian subsidiary
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InterTAN
InterTAN was created by Tandy Corporation in 1986 to operate Radio Shack stores in Canada, Europe and Australia. After the UK locations, which were branded 'Tandy', were sold to Carphone Warehouse in 1999 and the Australian locations (which were a ...
(1986–2009), former subsidiary for Tandy's European and Canadian outlets
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Tandy Leather Factory
Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. is an American specialty retailer and wholesale distributor of leather and leatherwork related products. It operates more than 100 stores worldwide. Originally part of the Tandy Corporation, Tandy Leather has gone thro ...
, the continuing leather operation of the original Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company, various owners and names since first spun off as Tex Tan-Hickok in 1976
Places
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Tandy Community Center, The Ville neighborhood, St. Louis, Missouri, US; NRHP-listed
* Tandy Park,
The Ville neighborhood, St. Louis, Missouri, US
People
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Tandy Warnow
Tandy Warnow is an American computer scientist and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.Tandy Warnow's , retrieved 2020-09-10. She is known for her work on the reconstruction of evolutio ...
(active 1984–present), American computer scientist
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Tandy (surname) Tandy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Adam Tandy, British television producer
* Charles D. Tandy (1918–1978), chairman of Tandy Corporation
* David W. Tandy, American politician
* Donald Tandy (1918–2014), British actor ...
, list of notable people with the surname
Fictional uses
* Tandy, a recurring character on the U.S. animated TV series ''
Sam & Cat
''Sam & Cat'' is an American teen sitcom that originally aired from June 8, 2013, to July 17, 2014, on Nickelodeon. It is a spin-off of two TV shows '' iCarly'' and ''Victorious'', which Dan Schneider also created. It stars Jennette McCurdy as ...
'' (2013–14)
* "Tandy", the 12th story in Sherwood Anderson's short story cycle ''
Winesburg, Ohio
''Winesburg, Ohio'' (full title: ''Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life'') is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the ...
'' (2019)
** Tandy Hard, the title character in the "Tandy" short story
* Tandy Stark, a fictional one-episode character played by Tandy Tatter in the British web series ''
Corner Shop Show
''Corner Shop Show'' is a British comedy drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a gen ...
'' (2014–2015, 2017–2019)
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Tandy Hampton, a fictional recurring character on the U.S. drama TV series ''Nashville'' (2012–2018)
* Phil Tandy Miller, lead fictional character on the U.S. comedy
''The Last Man on Earth'' (TV series) (2015–2018)
See also
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Tandi (disambiguation)
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