OT: Tandy Silver

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004, Rod Caddy wrote:
...

>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.

Yup.  $3,899.00 for a Model II with 64K RAM and a single 640K 8in floppy
drive.  In December of 1982 I was managing the Radio Shack Computer Center
in Rockville, Maryland's Congressional Plaza, and sold it out to the walls
including all the machines in our classroom.  I ordered new Model IIs for
the classroom, and they arrived in January, about a day before the Model
12s were introduced along with new larger hard drives, etc. so I had an
instantaneous inventory loss.  To add insult to injury, Fort Worth dumped a
bunch of copiers on us to shift the inventory losses from the Tandy ware
houses to the stores where they basically clobbered my bonus with the
inventory losses.

Bill
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