[Coco] Another Radio Shack Article

Mark J. Blair nf6x at nf6x.net
Sat Jan 4 00:10:13 EST 2014


On Jan 3, 2014, at 11:55 , Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Then Tandy dumped the CoCo and my enthusiasm for staying there was gone.
> 
> I remember writing a letter a few months before I left to the then
> Australian general manager telling him that the way the company was heading
> with regards to computers, Tandy would not be in the computer business in a
> few years time.
> 
> After I left and about 2 years later, Tandy wasn't selling any Tandy branded
> computers anymore. They sold some crappy PC clone under the banner of
> InterTan and a few years later dropped computers all together.


I don't know what they might have done differently once the Wintel cancer metastasized. How could they have stayed in the computer business once PC clones were cheap, fungible commodity items?

-- 
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/




More information about the Coco mailing list