[Coco] I, Cringely Remembering Radio Shack - I, Cringely

[William Mikrut]

Lol... I remember looking at tha catalog piecing together what I wanted. ..
and coming up with some astronomical number like $2,200 .
 On Feb 12, 2015 12:02 PM, "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

>
> Chris, Radio Sack was not a part of Tandy until 1962 when Tandy bought the
> near bankrupt Radio Shack chain.
> And yes, the "original" Radio Shack was started in 1921. But what we know
> as Radio Shack didn't exist until Tandy revamped the stores into the Radio
> Shack of the '60s, '70s, & '80s. The 90s started out slow then just
> trickled out all together :-(
>
> All I can say is I will really miss the 'Shack'... it served many of my
> electronic needs (and my imagination) for many years, eventually marrying
> my love of music to computers and starting what was to become my Computer
> based recording studio. Had it not been for a little 16k Coco 2 sitting on
> the "Manager's Special" table in Radio Shack, playing "William Tell's
> Overture" through an Orchestra 90 pak, I may have never gotten into
> computers.
> I guess I owe them a big "THANK YOU" for all they did for me in the past.
>
> Like the "Sear's Christmas Catalog" was to most others, the Radio Shack
> catalog was a bathroom reading staple for the electronics buff :-)
>
>
> Bill Pierce
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Feb 12, 2015 12:29 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] I, Cringely Remembering Radio Shack - I, Cringely
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>
>
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That's mainly just a big rant about the Tandy 2000. Why would he not even
> > mention the CoCo or the very popular Model 100 portables?
>
> I also thought it was strange that the way it was written it comes across
> as
> Tandy created Radio Shack in the ‘50s, which isn’t true. Radio Shack has
> been
> around since 1921.
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