[Coco] Radio Shack Party

[Steve Strowbridge]

While not "required" to be a CoCoNut, it's often the case, many of us
worked there :)

I started hanging out around the age of 12, when the Model 1 and 3 were
still hot items, I got my hands on the first CoCo when it came out, around
13, but wasn't until I was 14, the youngest legal working age in Florida at
the time, that I could get a part time job, start to save my money, and put
my first CoCo on Lay Away.

I didn't end up working at my same local Radio Shack until after High
School, I was like 18/19 and worked there when I was going to college (for
a very brief time)
By the time I worked there, the CoCo 3 and Tandy 1000 computers were the
items of the day, and I sold them both like hot cakes, even got my own Citi
Line credit card and purchased my own CoCo 3 with CM-8 and Tandy 1000 with
color RGB monitors, and around that time, I also transitioned over to
MS-DOS, and didn't really "look back" to the CoCo until about 2 years ago
when I found emulators and started doing YouTube videos, that led me to
this thing called eBay, which led me to several dozen CoCo's and a very
disgruntled wife :)



Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
http://ogsteviestrow.com
ogsteviestrow at gmail.com


On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Rietveld Rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I never worked at radioshack but I was there so often, after school, that
> other customers probably thought I did :)
>
> Sent from my ⑩ Passport SE; not running Android.
>   Original Message
> From: Steve Strowbridge
> Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 10:46 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Radio Shack Party
>
>
> I'll be there, just like last year, will current and former Radio Shack
> employees be invited and attending? By the way, I'm a former Radio Shack
> employee :)
>
>
> Steve Strowbridge, aka
> The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> http://ogsteviestrow.com
> ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Melanie and John Mark Mobley <
> johnmarkmelanie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I posted this to Google Plus:
> > https://plus.google.com/101457299728914389455/posts/TPGmYJcTkrg
> >
> > John Mark Mobley
> >
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