We've never had Radio Shack here in Oz, it's always been called Tandy, but this might be important for you US folk - Radio Shack is now simply "The Shack":
Dave.
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Yes, very cool. I used to have a massive collection of the Australian Tandy Electronics monthly flyers and yearly catalogs, but I foolishly threw them out in a clean-up many years back now.
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It is on its way out, because all it carries is "the shit", and I don't mean the gang boy retard meaning either.
What about RS Components?
Herc
Why do you ask?? I do not believe there is any connection between RS Components and Radio Shack.
RS was Radio Spares I think and always sold components that were far too expensive and higher quality than anything Radio Shack/Tandy ever sold.
-- John G.
"John G." wrote >
uh ok
Herc
RS was Radio Spares, are a different company and still sell components.
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Owners: "We've totally screwed up the company so that people are making jokes about us. What we sell is complete junk and our sales help are completely useless. Can you help us?"
Marketing consultant: "Yes change your name. Now where's my check?"
Can you imagine these guys being able to design and manufacture in house a product of the same scope and complexity as a modern TRS-80 computer?.
Do they even have design staff anymore?.
The TRS-80 was a fluke. I hear they designed it for their own accounting department, and when it was finished someone noticed it was a Great Computer, and that they should sell it. It _was_ a great computer (fully TTL and all), but that was by accident.
I just saw my first The Shack tv comercial. It showed adigital camera taking a picture of a Radio Shack store, then when the camera diplays the picture it is The Shack. Mike
That's simply the camera using a usefulness filter where anything useful has been filtered out.
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