[Coco] Re: goodie!

[Rogelio Perea]

Willard Goosey wrote:

>...So I went into the local Radio Shack to buy a flashlight that won't
>leave me in the dark when I need it, and "Big" Al's wife says, "Hi,"
>and I say "Hi," in return.

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>Heh.  He should have sold it to me back in '95 when I was willing to
>give him $10 for it.
>
>Some days, I *love* Radio Shack...

Lucky!. In my area (North/South/New/East Brunswick NJ) and for the most part 
the NY area too, I have banned myself from visiting a Radio Shack store. I 
know that one less customer won't affect the company's growth (if any!) but 
I got tired of walking to a store chasing for that elusive 
got-to-have-it-now part or component only to leave empty handed and hearing 
offers from the sales people on ordering the items on-line... well, I can do 
that from the comfort of my home thank you!.

Last item I was looking for was a 6 pin DIN plug to make a custom adapter to 
a Commodore Monitor for my CoCo 3... not really hoping for something off the 
"catalog" I was aiming at least to find a stray one. No such luck, Jameco 
was rather speedy in their shipment though I had to buy a few more than 
really needed to justify the shipping.

Radio Shack once was a pushing force in home and hobbyist electronics, I am 
grateful on their efforts to make the TRS-80 line come about and most 
important: the CoCo. But now, after a steady decline the stores are a 
shamble shadow of what used to be... oh well...

Pardon my soapbox :-)


-=[ Rogelio ]=-