OT: Tandy Silver

[Rod Caddy]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:04:04 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 19 11:06 , Jay R. Ashworth, showing utter disregard
>> for
>> spell-checkers gave us this:
>>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:34:03AM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>>>>> Naw; let's make it a trivia quiz.  Anyone remember where
>>>>> Tandy Silver
>>>>> came from?
>>>> Everyone knows that don't they? :-)^32
>>> Well, apparently even *I* don't.
>> That's why I had smileys to the 32nd power.  It's one of those
>> truly obscure things.  I did a 'loc'[1] on paint or color and
>> there was a file in one of my directories that had the name
>> of tandy-paint-color.  It was  post from Mike Yetsko who was
>> deepling involved in the early days - possible as a CSR.
> I always thought that RS selected the color because it was cheap and
> readily available.  I surely couldn't have been because it was
> attractive.
> BTW:  When I was racing, I took a roll of yellow duct tape and a
> roll of
> red to the local auto paint store and asked for paint that matched
> the
> tape.  That way I could do tape repairs without it being obvious to
> the
> spectators.
> ..
>> LDOS was a great training ground for Unix with it's device
>> independance and linking ability.    I had an original TRSDOS
>> 2.1 - with a handwritten label at a 12 page mimeograph instruction
>> set from Radio Shack.
> Roy Soltoff, author of LDOS, was quite active in the various Tandy
> user
> groups in the D.C. area when I was managing ``X'' departments in
> downtown
> D.C. and the RSCC in Rockville, Maryland.  He didn't show up much
> at the
> Model II group which had a very heavy Xenix bias after it was
> released in
> late 1982.
> ..
>> I often wonder what I'd been doing today if I had not made that
>> step in 1977 and bought that Model I.    Who knows - I could have
>> become rich and successful instead of addicted to these
>> wee beasties.
> I never had a Model I, having decided that an HP 97 calculator did
> everything I needed at the time, and provided hard copy which cost
> a bunch
> on the TRS 80s then.  The first micro I used extensively was the
> Model II
> with TRSDOS, and later the Model 16 with Xenix.  In the three years
> that I
> was with Radio Shack, I sold one Model I, an expansion interface,
> and fewer
> than a half-dozen Model IIIs, and no color computers.  When I left
> Radio
> Shack in October of 1983, I bought a Model 4P and a Model 100 as I
> left for
> Seattle to develop software under Xenix on the Model 16/6000
> systems.
> Bill
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It has been a while since I sold a Model I.  I can remember a time during late 81 through mid 82 we could not get Model IIs.  We had one on the showroom floor and I threatened anyone that wanted to sell it off the floor because we could get them if the customer pre-paid.  We were selling them as fast as we could setup appointments to show them.  Wow, thems wuz thu daze.  In beautiful Little Rock, AR.


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