Radio Shack bankrupt

[Clocky]

Fond memories of Tandy, it's how I got my start in computers and
electronics too.
Dave posted a video on the EEVBlog for those interested.

Time to fire up a model 1 and CoCo to to relive the glory years.

 

[keithr]

On 10/02/2015 12:40 AM, Clocky wrote:

Fond memories of Tandy, it's how I got my start in computers and
electronics too.
Dave posted a video on the EEVBlog for those interested.

Time to fire up a model 1 and CoCo to to relive the glory years.

90 years of history gone, but, in the US, they had gone the same way as
Dick Smith has here, but at least they had a few bits of hobby stuff
hidden down the back.

 

[Bob Milutinovic]

"Clocky" <notgonn@happen.com> wrote in message
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Fond memories of Tandy, it's how I got my start in computers and
electronics too.

Same here (though most of my electronic purchases back then were from Dick
Smith).

Also my first foray into retail, back in the days when Tandy meant
something. I still have several thousand InterTAN shares which were given as
a staff incentive, now worth far less than the paper they're printed on.

Radio Shack should've learnt from the collapse of Tandy in Australia and
InterTAN in general - you can't replace in-house quality brands with
el-cheapo/el-crappo stuff and still charge an arm and a leg for them.
Similarly, you can't replace experienced & knowledgable staff with ex-K-Mart
"salespeople" and expect to turn a profit.

Dave posted a video on the EEVBlog for those interested.

Time to fire up a model 1 and CoCo to to relive the glory years.

--
Bob Milutinovic
Cognicom