From: rswenson484@yahoo.com   
      
   "R Flowers"  wrote in message   
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   > Here is the reason I bought a TRS-80 in my early teens, as opposed to an   
   > Apple or other computer: in my small town of 2,000+ people, I could go to   
   > the local Radio Shack and put my hot sweaty hands right on the machine. I   
   > suspect a lot of the TRS-80's popularity was based on the ubiquity of 'the   
   > Shack.' My parents would have probably had conniptions if I wanted to send   
   > several hundred dollars to some hippy company in California.   
   >   
   > -- R Flowers   
      
   That's the main reason Radio Shack survived. They didn't have the best   
   products or the best prices, but they were everywhere. Even the smallest   
   towns had Radio Shacks..   
      
   I just wish they put a little more into the Model I - it was supposed to   
   have an S100 bus and run CP/M. Level I BASIC was a joke - they should have   
   made Level II standard on all machines. Color would have been nice too. If   
   Apple could do it, why not Radio Shack? Would the extra chip or two for   
   color support really add that much to the final cost?   
      
   If they had done things just a little different, I believe we'd all be using   
   64-bit TRS-80 clones.   
      
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