Computers by brand Tandon
Brand: Tandon
Founded: 1975
By: Sirjang Lal Tandon
In:
USA
Defunct: 1993
Tandon Corporation was a hard drive manufacturer that entered the PC industry, achieving great sales in the 1980s.
Its hard drives were known for their reliability and featured some innovative removable drives for its time. Tandon was acquired by Western Digital in 1988.
It began manufacturing reading heads for floppy disk drives, then began manufacturing single-drive drives that competed with those manufactured by Shugart. In the early 1980s, it created the DS/DD floppy disk drives, changing the Shugart 35-track standard to a 40-track drive, which was used in the Tandy 1200 computers and later in the IBM computers, which became a lucrative business.
In the mid-1980s, it switched to manufacturing hard drives.
And in 1986, it created its own computer, the PCX, a clone of the IBM-XT that was very well received.
