[Coco] A Neat Experience

[Frank Pittel]

Boisy,

Time for you to come clean and admit to having bought out their coco
inventory!

Frank


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:23:13AM -0500, Boisy Pitre wrote:
> I had an interesting experience that I thought would be fun to share  
> with all of you.
>
> Yesterday, I took part of the afternoon off to attend a funeral of a  
> friend.  The funeral was in a small town called Eunice, about 15 miles  
> west of where I live; we go there on occasion so I'm familiar with the  
> layout of the town, the available stores, etc.  After leaving the  
> church, I decided to stop by Wal-Mart to pick up a few things for my  
> trip to the fest this weekend, and on the way there, took note of a  
> building in an old shopping center. with an electronics shop  I had  
> noticed this building before and thought about stopping, but never  
> actually visited the store.
>
> After leaving Wal-Mart, I decided to pull into the parking lot of this  
> old shopping center and went into the store, which turned out to be an  
> electronics/computer/CB radio type place; as soon as I walked through  
> the door, I noticed a set of items hanging from pegboard backed  
> shelving, and a picture in one of the items that looked almost like a  
> CoCo.  It turned out to be MC-10 Micro Color Computer Carry Cases (RS  
> part #26-529).  Next to that were some 6' Serial Cables for the Color  
> Computer and MC-10 (26-3020A).  This merchandise carried the original  
> Radio Shack price tags and packaging.
>
> It turns out that in talking with the owner, this was the old Radio  
> Shack store; the current owner had bought all of the old inventory along 
> with the store, changed the name and left Radio Shack merch hanging on 
> the shelves.  I asked if he had any other old stock, but he said the only 
> thing he had was a Radio Shack printer, still new in the box, somewhere 
> in the back.  I didn't have much time to wait for him to look for it, so 
> I picked up the items that I had found, purchased them and left.
>
> I would think that it's extremely unusual to walk into a store in this  
> day and age and see original Radio Shack products for the CoCo or its  
> counterparts, and makes you wonder just how much of this new old stock  
> is still out there.  All in all, it was a neat little happenstance that, 
> for a moment, took me back.
>
> Regards,
> Boisy G. Pitre
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