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

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

Inside baby, there is picture inside in some page. No more spoilers...

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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