[Coco]: Tandy's biggest mistakes thread

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:02:12 -0600, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>  
wrote:

> On Apr 21, 2005, at 10:18 AM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>>> 4) Tandy adopted 3rd party express order HARDWARE as well as  
>>> software.  I believe I bought my Disto Super Controller 2 (no halt  
>>> floppy!) through Radio Shack, if I recall.  That was a rather high end  
>>> disc controller for the day. There were a few other items there that  
>>> indicate Tandy was open to promoting the higher end side of the CoCo.   
>>> Need we point out OS-9?
>>     This didn't start till quite late (the Coco 2 was already out  
>> before Express Order started, meaning the Coco 1 had no such marketing  
>> for at least 3 years), and (here in Canada, at least), they would NOT  
>> carry any of the stock for it in store, nor would they advertise them  
>> (you had to ask for that specific catalog, and if you were Joe Blow off  
>> the streat who had never heard of Rainbow magazine to see ads, you  
>> would never know that these existed). So, if a customer walked into a  
>> store, they would know nothing about no-halt disk controllers, VIP  
>> Library, or anything else that was sold through Express Order.
>
> Well, it was in the catalog here in the States.  Wasn't Radio Shack in  
> Canada pretty much a different company?  Weren't they "Tandy" stores or  
> something different?
> --
     They were ran by InterTan, yes, but they were still Radio Shack  
stores. Did Radio Shack in the US actually stock things like SC-2's or the  
VIP Library suite in stores, or could you only get them by going through  
the Express Order catalog?


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L. Curtis Boyle