The MG-1 was sold, as a home entertainment instrument, by the Radio Shack electronics store chain, under its Realistic brand name (which Radio Shack typically used to market home audio and amateur radio equipment). A small legend next to the logo noted "by Moog". The idea was hatched by Moog's Dave Luce, who attended a Radio Shack conference with a monophonic synth cobbed together from Minimoog circuit boards. Radio Shack was intrigued by the basic idea, but thought that it needed work to be marketable to the home audience, and to hit a price point that would fit into Radio Shack's marketing. Radio Shack turned the idea over to Paul Schreiber, who at the time was an employee of Tandy Corporation, Radio Shack's parent company. Schreiber laid out the voice architecture with the two VCOs, a s