[Coco] My Radio Shack manager was right...

[Juan Castro]

Looking at the cover again. Isn't that computer a plain CoCo 2?

Or are you talking about the closeup of a keyboard at the top right?


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> You realize there's a picture of the mockup in Boisy and Bill's book?
>
> Art
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm completely out of the loop with stuff in the CoCo world, as has been
> > the case for many years. I'm listening to the Floppy Days podcast with
> > Boisy and Bill and hearing the discussion of the CoCo 4, and a reference
> to
> > Radio Shack's Barry Thompson mentioning it in the the final issue of
> > Rainbow. I had dropped my subscription by then, and never saw this
> > reference until looking it up online today:
> >
> > "As for the things I have not done, I have not seen the
> > development of a CoCo 4, (although I did see a mockup
> > once with a floppy 3 1 /2 built-in that looked remarkably
> > similar to a Tandy 1000 EX) . . ,"
> >
> > I worked for Radio Shack from 88-90 or maybe 91. My little town had two
> > Radio Shacks, and there was one more in the next town over. The manager
> of
> > our mall store was kind of on top of these three stores.
> >
> > Every year, Radio Shack managers went to the home office in Ft. Worth for
> > a big meeting (at least, I assume all did -- we were only a few hours
> away,
> > so maybe it was just regional?).
> >
> > I remember the manager, Michelle, telling me about the next CoCo she saw,
> > saying it looked like a 1000HX with a floppy drive built in.
> >
> > I have told this tale a number of times over the years at CoCoFESTs and
> > maybe even on this list as the subject came up. I never knew this was
> > mentioned anywhere else, but always believed it to be true simply because
> > this wasn't a likely story for her to make up. We wondered if someone
> > working at Radio Shack may have simply repacked a CoCo in one of those
> > cases, but I remember when they discontinued the CoCo FD502 floppy drive
> > (for awhile) and introduced another part which was going to let you hook
> up
> > the external HX/EX drives to the CoCo (which would have given the first
> > official 3.5" drive for the machine). This happened while I was working
> at
> > Radio Shack... But then the FD502 returned (no longer sold out when gone
> or
> > whatever the terminology for a dead product was).
> >
> > Fascinating stuff. I gotta save up my pennies so I can buy the CoCo book.
> >
> >
> > -
> > Allen Huffman - PO Box 22031 - Clive IA 50325 - 515-999-0227 (vmail/TXT
> > only)
> > Sent from my iPad.
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