[Coco] tandy info

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Yeah, I don’t think I’d worry about anything short of using the name,
at least at the hobbyist level.

- Ed


> On Nov 3, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 
> On Monday 03 November 2014 02:42:34 Josh Harper via Coco did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> hi guys
>> 
>> im just curious,does any happen to know who currenly ownsthe rights to
>> tandy computer division
>> 
>> what I know is
>> 
>> radio shack sold its computer division to AST Research then  AST was
>> taken over by Samsung then Samsung sold the ast name then ast merged
>> with Nec
> 
> That is more than I knew about it Josh.  In any event, you can guess 
> correctly that by now there is no one at Nec who even knows what a Tandy 
> Color Computer is, or that they might have some IP rights to it.
> 
> When these 'takeovers' take place, the new brooms are not interested in 
> keeping paper on something they have no interest in pursuing as a 
> profitable venture, and tons of old paper goes to the landfill.
> 
> My old timers guess is that we can do as we darned well please.  That is 
> the question in the back of your mind I assume?
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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