Tandy Pda - Anyone Remember It?

[badhorsey]

I very briefly had a PDA from Tandy, around 1990 / 1991. It was a flip-open device with a green screen and a very handsome brushed aluminium case. The functionality was very limited - it had no clock, so no alarms or calendars; great for addresses, not great for much else. I have an inkling that it may have been made by Rolodex?

I traded it in for an Atari Portfolio, but I'd be curious to see if anyone else remembers this device - I've searched online for ages.

[Hopkirk]

Wasn't Tandy a similar quality to Amstrad?

[Hopkirk]

I don't remember it, but my Dad was upmarket - he had a Psion Organiser.

[sunny-dave]

https://stevenlylejordan.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/tandy-z-550-pda.jpg

[Rationalist]

In the mid 1980s, my employers bought me a Tandy TRS-80 model 100.



Slightly different from what you describe, but I used a (software) Telex interface to send electronic messages internationally - even before the internet.

It was actually a bit awesome in those days to be fully portable and capable of storing and retrieving text – and offering useful functionality such as sending messages over an in-built modem.

Sigh - Good time!

[bookend]

Tandy was the British division of the american electronics giant, Radio Shack. At one time, Radio Shack equipment such as ham radios, vhf scanners etc was purchasable directly from the USA via advertisements in uk electronic magazines, but when they opened their Tandy stores, it transformed consumer electronics buying in the UK. One of their brand names was "Realistic" in the UK and their marketing methods in stores was unique in many respects.
They had absolutely no connection with Alan Sugar's Armstrad brand, a totally British company.