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From: phipps@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000 Name
Message-ID: <1905@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 20:15:52 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.1905
Posted: Tue Dec  6 20:15:52 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Dec-83 04:45:57 EST
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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If Tandy/Radio Shack is so keen on getting into the business market,
so much so that they drop their "Radio Shack" label,
why did they retain the "TRS-80" in the name ?
I think that "TRS-80" brings to mind the same hobbyist image
that "Radio Shack" does, not to mention the effect of some pronunciations
of those letters and digits (be it fond irreverence or not).

I would have expected them to name the machine "Tandy System/2000"
or some such.

-- Clay Phipps

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