[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Sad News For Canadian's

[Dave]

Glen, Yep, the local RS's were quite popular....even back in the 
early seventies when I was a teen...
Sure parts were expensive, but they were readily available at RS 
ONLY where I lived...
Science Fair was great stuff, built my first regenerative Short Wave 
Receiver back then...got me hooked on DX'ing....
CB was cool then and the Shack was the place to buy towers, roters, 
antenna's, etc....most gone now or special order....
H3ll, they even sold Shure cartridges at a decent price (re-branded)
for your turntable....
During school break they would have the summer battery special where 
you brought in an item adn they FILLED it with batteries...
Those were the days but I digress....
Then the Model 1 TRS appeared and the rest is history....!
We had a Tandy Computer Store here, "not" an RS Store, that's how 
popular they were back then.....and owned most of the computer 
market locally....
The CoCo filled in nicely with the Extended Basic we ahd to learn in 
college...the Commodores and Atari's Basic were too weak until MS 
released MS Basic for the Atari 800XL......(one of my fav's)
I used to pick up the U.S. RS catalog in Watertown N.Y. every year 
and marveled at what was available south of the border.....as 
compared to up here.....
Cheers Dave

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "Glen VanDenBiggelaar" 
<glenvdb at h...> wrote:
> 
> I have to agree dave,
> If you were fortunate to be a teen in the '80s, The local Shack 
was so much 
> more than "just a store" in many ways it was a "first" computer 
club and if 
> you had a good owner that didn't chase the kids out, you got so 
much more 
> there. From my first "Science Fair" project kit (i had many) to my 
rocket 
> supplies (engines and such) to our first remote control cars. If 
you had a 
> good owner, late at night, before the mall was closing, we would 
have RC 
> races with the trucks. We could actually play with the computers, 
and on 
> Weekends we all would be huddled around the CoCo at the back, 
while someone 
> was demonstrating the latest games or software that they had 
written.
> All the free battieries, my god, sometimes those were the only 
batteires in 
> the house. It was a hang out for kids, and that proved to be many 
sales for 
> the owner.
> 
> -Glen
> >
> >Never got any free batteries at the computer clubs I belonged 
to....
> >
> >:-)
> >
> >Cheers Dave
> >
> >--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, James Dessart <james at s...> 
wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> > >
> > > > We never had a Circut City here in Edmonton, but you are 
right, it
> > > > just looks like another Future Shop/Best Buy store. But it 
is still
> > > > sad to see them go, they were an institution when I was 
growing up.
> > > > How many times my Mom was shopping at Safeway, and we (me 
and my
> > > > brother) ditched her to go see what was new at the Shack.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, it's just a company, and never had anyone's
> >interests
> > > in mind but their own. Now something like a homebrew computer
> >club... that
> > > would be sad to see lost. :)
> > >
> > > James
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >





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