Good Ol' Tandy Days

[Brandt Eppler]

Me

USAF 1971-1973
Strategic Air Command
42nd. Security Police Squadron
Loring AFB, Maine



Brandt Eppler
443.677.3539
beppler300 at verizon.net

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam  - Magna Hannibal, 247-183 BC
Est Veritas et Praevalebit
Nill Illigitimi Carborundum

On Wed May 09 17:47:05 CDT 2012, smittyusn1 at bellsouth.net wrote:

I had (1968) the all expenses paid,  deluxe package tour of SE 
Asia (Hong
Kong included), free air travel (combat pay), free meals (yuk), 
free
lodging, etc., etc..  I have often wondered many times,  how many 
people on
the filePro list have served in the Military besides Charlie Day 
and myself?

Wayne Smith
Port Orange, Florida

-----Original Message-----
From: John Sica
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 4:51 PM
To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: Good Ol' Tandy Days

Wow, this is like re-living my career at Tandy.  But you have to 
admit
Bill, that Hong Kong trip was one of the most amazing trips ever.

John

On 5/9/2012 1:01 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012, Linda Hapner wrote:
> 
>> Reading Ken's post about the old Tandy Model I and Radio Shack, 
>> I thought
>> you might get a kick out of some computer magazines I found in 
>> my archives.
>> I've scanned a few into a pdf - click here to view:
> The first picture from February 1983 reminds me of how Radio
> Shack managed to totally screw their store managers.
> 
> I was managing the Radio Shack Computer Center in Congressional
> Plaza, Rockville Maryland at the time.  I had emptied the store
> during December, even selling every machine in our classroom.
> Naturally I ordered replacement machines for the classroom and
> inventory in January, Model IIs, Model 16s, hard drives, etc.
> which were immediately obsolete with the announcement of the
> Model 12s, Model 6000s, and new, higher capacity, hard drives.
> 
> The immediate effect on the store managers was a huge inventory
> loss, decimating the store's P&L thus my paycheck.  To add insult
> to injury, Radio Shack shipped copiers to the computer centers
> that we didn't order and couldn't sell, further increasing the
> inventory and limiting our ability to order new systems that we
> could sell.  In effect, they transferred the inventory losses to
> the stores from the warehouses which severely reduced their
> payroll as store managers were paid a percentage of the store's
> profit.
> 
> My "promotion" from manager of an X-department in D.C.  to RSCC
> manager cut my pay about 70% because of the higher overhead and
> these booked inventory losses.  I was 'demoted' to another
> X-department in D.C. about a month later where (a) I recovered
> most of the lost income, (b) won a trip to Hong Kong, and (b)
> resigned the day I returned from the trip to take a job as V.P.
> of a customer's software company in Seattle.  Unlike most
> store managers who were escorted out immediately after they quit,
> my District Manager, Alan Bush, asked me to stay another 30 days
> to close several large sales I had pending, and the divisional
> V.P. called me to try to get me to reconsider.
> 
> Bill

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