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From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy produces a winner?
Message-ID: <284700001@adaptx1>
Date: 14 May 91 00:30:19 GMT
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Nf-From: adaptx1.UUCP!neese    May 13 12:36:00 1991


>In article <91131.224709RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>got high ratings were the Grid 1720 and the Panasonic 270, both of
>>which are Tandys under their skin. Wonders never cease!
>
>Actually, just about every single MS-DOS machine that Tandy sells right
>now is actually a Pansonic.  Sometimes the Tandy version is a bit
>different, like DeskMate in ROM.  The Tandy 2810 is actually the
>Panasonic 270, just like the Tandy 1100FD is a Pansonic 150B, minus the
>backlight, and RAM expansion, but with DeskMate.
>
>The GRiD 1720 is really a GRiD, the company was bought out by Tandy
>some time ago.  Basicly, Tandy just bought the right hardware.  Tandy
>hasn't made original equipment for some time now,  I think the Tandy
>6000 was one of the last.  I'm not even sure the CoCo was entirely
>developed by them.  Still, it's good equipment.  My TRS-80 M100 (custom
>manufactured by Kyocera for Tandy) is still working fine, after five
>years.

I don't know about the laptops, but all of Tandy's desktop computers are
designed and built by Tandy.  I do know that Panasonic does OEM some
equipment from Tandy.  Don't know what that includes.  That was all over the
local press a while back.  The CoCo has always been Tandy designed and
manufactured.

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Senior SCSI Applications Engineer
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