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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Radio Shack
Message-ID: <1072@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 16:18:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 16:18:36 1984
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	Have you ever wondered why Radio Shack never seems to be the
	first with a new inovative product?  The reason is that the
	Radio Shack  way  of   doing business is to let the other
	companies do the innovating, then follow up with a cheap (often
	inferior) alternative to another company's product.

I would never buy a computer or a stereo at Radio Shack, because they
are always overpriced.  ("Never discounted" is probably more accurate;
I never buy at certain department stores that don't discount either.)

However, it probably isn't fair to claim that all TRS products are
obsolete before they are out.  The TRS-100 was the first handheld
portable computer out, and for its time was technically excellent.
(It still is, modulo the tiny screen size.)

On the other hand, I stuck my head in a local Radio Shack store the other
day to pick up a box of DSDD 5.25" floppies.  They wanted 80 bucks for
a box of 10!  The computer store 3 doors down had them for 45, and I could
have gotten them for 39 across town or even less by mail order.