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Website. radioshack .com. RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer founded in 1921. It was established as an amateur radio mail-order business centered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its parent company, Radio Shack Corporation, was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962, shifting its focus from radio equipment ...
June 26, 1999 – Radio Shack employee Jonathan Lemuel Lara was restrained with flex ties to a chair in the back room of a Radio Shack in Greenville, South Carolina. Lara was stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver and subsequently died. Casandra Laster, Bounds' accomplice, was found guilty of accessory after the fact to felony murder in 2001.
Incredible Universe. Incredible Universe was a chain of American consumer electronics stores from 1992 to 1997. A typical Incredible Universe was 185,000 square feet (17,200 m 2) of sales floor and warehouse, stocking around 85,000 items. [2] The operation was conceived by former Tandy CEO John Roach. Many internal corporate philosophies of ...
The Source (Bell) Electronics Inc., doing business as The Source ( French: La Source ), is a Canadian consumer electronics and cell phone retail chain. The chain goes back over 50 years in Canada, initially as Radio Shack and later as The Source by Circuit City. The Source is now owned by BCE Inc., which purchased the assets of InterTAN from ...
David J. Edmondson was born June 10, 1959, in Methuen, Massachusetts. His mother Jeannette was a homemaker, and his adoptive father was a US soldier. [citation needed] Like most children of military families, Edmondson moved a great deal throughout his early life, including periods in Germany and Fort Jackson, South Carolina, before settling at ...
Julian C. Day. Born. ( 1952-05-14) May 14, 1952 (age 72) Occupation. corporate executive. Julian C. Day (born May 14, 1952) is an American corporate executive. He is the former President and CEO of Kmart and the former CEO of RadioShack.
In January 1977, he presented the original TRS-80 prototype to Tandy’s CEO Charles Tandy and Radioshack’s president Lewis Kornfeld. At just under $600, the TRS-80 quickly became the best-selling personal computer on the market. To write the software code for the TRS-80, Tandy hired eventual Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Radio Shack was a large customer of the Microsoft Corporation and Shirley worked closely with Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, to create Radio Shack products utilizing Microsoft software. In 1983, Gates recruited Shirley to join Microsoft as president, chief operating officer, and director.