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Eerie coincidence: Coleco, manufacturers of the ill-fated ADAM home computer, which competed with Tandy/Radio Shack, was originally the Connecticut Leather Comp
by EvanAnderson 1y ago
Eerie coincidence: Coleco, manufacturers of the ill-fated ADAM home computer, which competed with Tandy/Radio Shack, was originally the Connecticut Leather Company.
- LarsDu88 1y agoApparently the Ycombinator equivalents of early microcomputer startups were leather hobbyist stores!
- JKCalhoun 1y ago> their first offerings were surplus military equipment But then military surplus electronics came along and seem to have kick started a number of businesses, not just Radio Shack.