OT: Tandy Silver

[Rod Caddy]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:12:01 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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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I got hit with those copiers also.  By that time I was running the computer center in Jackson MS.  As I remember those were copiers made by Ricoh and about half of them had sat in the warehouse so long that the drums had crystallized.  What a mess.

Rod Caddy
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