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

[Arthur Flexser]

Look at p176, Juan.

Art


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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