Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!cbosgd!mark 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 Article-I.D.: cbosgd.1072 Posted: Wed Mar 7 16:18:36 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 19:14:00 EST References: <5775@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 19 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.