[Coco] Radio Shack Party

[Steve Strowbridge]

As I'm sure a few divorce attorneys do as well Salvador!


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


On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> Fantastic!
>
> I read somewhere that marriage counselors love vintage computing
> equipment! ;-)
>
> Salvador
>
>       From: Steve Strowbridge <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
>  To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>  Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 10:12 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Coco] Radio Shack Party
>
> 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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