this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2023
279 points (97.6% liked)

PC Master Race

14934 readers
1 users here now

A community for PC Master Race.

Rules:

  1. No bigotry: Including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
  2. Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No NSFW content.
  4. No Ads / Spamming.
  5. Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘stupid’ questions. The world won’t be made better or worse by snarky comments schooling naive newcomers on Lemmy.

Notes:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

So my last post, my dad found his 3rd computer... he finally found his first computer!

Bonus: Back of the receipt has some additional purchases: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ed5e2cb-3a29-4a8d-9f0f-347cc41771f2.jpeg

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] nukeworker10@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That is quite blatantly a take on Tandy, a leather company getting into the co.puter business.

[–] nezbyte@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

RIP RadioShack

[–] maker@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] nukeworker10@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Did Compaq also start as an acquisition from a completely unrelated industry?Tandy was a leather goods company that purchased a hobby electronics chain, and started selling PC's.