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- jotate, on 11/29/2008, -0/+81Tandy 2000? I had a Tandy 1000. Bitch ran exclusively off 3.5" floppies. Which my friends all thought was awesome because they'd only seen the 5.25" floppies. It had sweet games like Ducktales and Desktop. Desktop wasn't a game so much as a word processor / predecessor to MS Paint. But it was awesome. I wrote my 4th grade science paper about sharks on that thing. Printed it out on my dot matrix printer and tore the edges off so the teacher didn't bitch at me.
Man, I remember the day. Being back in it was awesome. - NicoNicoNico, on 11/29/2008, -0/+59Here's a question for everyone. Why has Radio Shack sunk so low? Never hear about them anymore. They seemed to be much bigger in the 70's and 80's.
- CannedCorn, on 11/29/2008, -2/+51Laugh at him then, but now Billy G is driving his Lols Royce all over your town, throwing eggs at ur house and bangin ur chix.
- elbowwoble, on 11/29/2008, -0/+443 decades and worth billions of dollars. Same haircut.
- inactive, on 11/29/2008, -0/+36The "2000" means it's advanced. However, only "Turbo" can surpass "2000" in terms of raw power.
- oboshoe, on 11/29/2008, -0/+28The computer you really really want, always cost $2,999
- CamperBob, on 11/29/2008, -0/+27Lack of focus. Radio Shack is neither fish, fowl, nor Fry's. Their broad-based inventory was an asset early on, when you couldn't buy most of what they sell anywhere else. However, it caught up to them when the Best Buys of the world arrived and started taking more and more of the market share on their most-profitable goods.
When you go into a Radio Shack store and buy a $1.98 toggle switch, paying with a credit card, the store almost certainly loses money. When it comes to getting customers through the door, they live and die by loss leaders, and they don't have (m)any of those left. That's why you get pestered endlessly about batteries, cell phones and the like every time you step into a Radio Shack store.
Remember that the "big box" electronics retailer is a relatively-new phenomenon. For most of Radio Shack's history, if you wanted a half-decent stereo receiver or a pair of speakers, that's where you went. - TVarmy, on 11/29/2008, -0/+26Might be a transition from techy stuff to consumer electronics, which is a broader market, but does not really make much sense for stores as small as theirs, since people like the bigger selection and lower prices at places like Best Buy, or the convenience of stores that also sell other things, like Target or WalMart.
Add to that the fact that people who are in to technology largely buy their stuff from online retailers, since Radio Shack is notorious for having substandard and expensive parts. That doesn't fully explain it, since that would cause the biggest hit in the late 90s, but I think it's partly to blame for their current state of affairs. - oboshoe, on 11/29/2008, -0/+22I just want to know why they want my damn phone number when all I wanted to do was buy a $1.98 toggle switch
- replaysMike, on 11/28/2008, -3/+24man how that guy doesn't get more p00n is beyond me.
- escapeartist, on 11/29/2008, -0/+21you dont know if he already has a poon conveyor underground already
- DrLeePhD, on 11/29/2008, -0/+18"from powerful desktops to multi-user office systems, we have it all! That's why we invite comparison."
What happened to you, Radio Shack. - 4321234, on 11/29/2008, -0/+15No wonder they wanted big bucks;
Specifications
* 8 MHz Intel 80186
* 128kB RAM (expandable to 768kB, 896kB with motherboard and ROM modifications)
* 1 or 2 720kb 5-1/4" floppy drives
* 10MB MFM full-height hard drive (upgradable to two 32MB half-height drives, 2 80MB drives with ROM mods and 3rd-party low-level formatting software)
* Proprietary parallel printer port (requires adapter cable to connect to a Centronics-port printer)
* Proprietary serial port - hollywoodphony, on 11/29/2008, -0/+14I'm actually viewing this webpage on one, right now. It took 16 minutes to load, but other than that, it's great.
- lpcustom, on 11/29/2008, -3/+18Because the people at Radio Shack are clueless.
- xanadu2113, on 11/29/2008, -2/+17wow tandy started @ $2999...thats expensive as *****, especially in 1980's dollars. These days, my moderately priced cell phone can do more.
- jessehadden, on 11/29/2008, -0/+13I think there's a very simple reason Radio Shock jumped the proverbial shark. Anyone remember this?
"OK, that will be $19.99, please... What's your telephone number? Mmkay, and what is your address? I need it to ring in your sale..."
I stopped buying things from Radio Shack, and started going out of my way (or going to multiple stores) to get what I needed, just to avoid being harassed for 15 minutes at the checkout.
Radio Shack did it to themselves, with a boneheaded corporate policy that I'm sure the employees hated just as much as the customers did. - DeadFox1, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1110MB Hard drive??!! i'll NEVER fill that thing!!!
- georgemason01, on 11/29/2008, -0/+11Queue nostalgic music, reminding us all of simpler times, leading to depressing suicidal thoughts.
- oboshoe, on 11/29/2008, -0/+11Dugg because they had to spend an entire paragraph, explaining who Bill Gates is.
- qubesquare, on 11/29/2008, -0/+10Can we call it MS-Windows from now on?
- inactive, on 11/29/2008, -0/+10Quite well, thank you.
- 4321234, on 11/29/2008, -0/+10His eyeballs look like he's been up all night perfecting the bsod shown in the background.
- AstroZombie138, on 11/29/2008, -0/+9Ahh... The Tandy 2000... I mowed lawns all summer trying to save for that one. It was "IBM Compatible" and could run a Fido-Net node which was the latest in thing. I ended up buying a C128 (lowest life span of any system ever) and then an Amiga instead.
- inactive, on 11/29/2008, -0/+9Dugg for Lols Royce
- ViperCTW, on 11/29/2008, -0/+8I work at a hobby shop with a lot of random electronics equipment located right next to a Radio Shack. I get dozens of customers everyday who leave their store and come into mine for the following reasons:
- The employees have no idea how to help them. Even the most basic electronics questions are met with blank stares and shoulder shrugs. If it doesn't have to do with a HDTV or cell phone, the employees don't know what they're doing.
- Ridiculous prices. Often I can sell a customer the exact same item for 1/2 of Radio Shack's price.
- Lack of good inventory. There used to be a time when you could fix (or in many cases build your own) electronics equipment from parts at Radio Shack. Now they are full of cookie cutter consumer electronics at prices way higher than the big box across the street. - Ericdigital, on 11/29/2008, -0/+8This is one to many references to $1.98 toggle switchs in these comments!
- JasonHaley, on 11/29/2008, -0/+7Bill's smiling because he knows that in another year the Tandy 3000 will be coming out and people will have to buy Windows all over again.
- jecrawf, on 11/29/2008, -0/+7Yep I had a Tandy 1000, up until 1995! It cost $1195. Upgraded the RAM to 768KB, Added a 42MB hard drive ($200), a 5 1/4 floppy, and a 2400 baud modem. I could do anything... The OS (Deskmate) came up in like 10 seconds, cause it was resident on the motherboard. Before we had the internet (anyone remember that?), we would call bulletin boards. they were mini websites that resided on peoples computers, and we dialed into them. No one really worried about viruses or malware then. And I had a dot matrix printer, Star SG10. Had bought it back in the 80's with my first computer, a Kaypro CPM "portable" computer. (that's a story in itself). The printer used a ribbon for ink. Got to the point eventually we couldn't get replacements, so we sprayed it with WD-40 to keep it working. It's a wonder the house didn't burn down.
- FI5HERMAN, on 11/29/2008, -1/+9Billy Boy you are definately a legend in your own time, And like a lot of other internet enthusiests I take my hat off to you. Love him or hate him he sped up where we are today!!!!!!!!
- eloestea, on 11/29/2008, -0/+7My first computer was a TRS-80!
Best lines of that article: Tandy 2000 systems start at $2999, and can be leased for $105 a month
Isn't it time you enjoyed peak performance from a personal computer? - vintechsys, on 11/29/2008, -0/+6Ah, the good ol' days. I miss my 286. I had 1meg of ram on board and a huge ISA board that added another 1.5megs. It was a monster. Two 20-meg MFM drives and 8bit Sound Blaster. Wing Commander was jammin'. I used to keep a shoe box full of 3.5 disks because everything i wanted to put something on the HD i had to remove something else :() ... Good times, goog times.
- ZenMojo, on 11/29/2008, -1/+8Reader Rabbit, BITCHES!
- TheKappa, on 11/29/2008, -0/+6"I"m rich, bitches!" - Bill Gates, 2008
- hippykiller, on 11/29/2008, -0/+7dont forget your batteries
- NicoNicoNico, on 11/29/2008, -0/+6My mother had those same glasses. So yes, they were in. It's more the whole picture, you know?
- macgarp, on 11/29/2008, -0/+5dual floppies!!!
- TVarmy, on 11/29/2008, -0/+6That's Moore's law. If computers get twice as fast every two years, in 10 years, whatever you typed that comment on will be 1/32 the speed of a modern computer in the same price range.
- inactive, on 11/29/2008, -2/+7Damn Tandy 2000 was almost $3,000.00 , makes macs not look so expensive And that was 1985
- UnaClocker, on 11/29/2008, -1/+6If someone in 1983 had the processing power in my iPhone, they'd have called it a super computer and it would have been running weather simulations on it. ;)
- deathfix, on 11/29/2008, -0/+5Who's laughing now? :)
He is! :| - Galaxylander, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4I work at The Source [Canada's Radio Shack]
So THAT'S why they force me to try to cell ***** batteries with every sale.
And phones.
And warranty.
Huh. - Arwin101, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4This is the second day running I've seen something from that guys uploads on Flickr .. Is everyone of those adds going to make the front page I wonder?
(there not bad though, it's worth taking a look through them) - inactive, on 11/29/2008, -0/+5***** that. Nitro makes turbo its bitch.
- mareksoon, on 11/29/2008, -0/+5THAT model started at that price. Other models were more. Many were less. I seem to recall the model 16, when released, was $4,999. For another $4,999 you could get an external 8 megabyte harddrive that took 60 seconds to spin up to operating speed.
1/1982 Radio Shack announces the Model 16, at a price of $4999 (128K/1 Drive) ... as in 8" floppy.
Found a somewhat complete timeline here: http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-models-timeline.htm
(missing the 1000 series and others from what I recall)
Model II / 16 / 12 info .. and original pricing, here:
http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-models-model2.htm
Oh, the memories ... - LarryinTN, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4$2999 in 1985 would be about $6200 today.
- GliTCH82, on 11/29/2008, -3/+83 decades and worth billions of dollars. Same blue jeans and black sweater.
- Remy1985, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4You know, he's a billionaire but he still can't afford a decent haircut.
- bedouin, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4Imagine if DeskMate reigned supreme over Windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeskMate -
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