Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcrware!jejones
From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: CoCo III
Summary: shift to "Express Order," perhaps?
Message-ID: <760@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 88 05:39:34 GMT
References: <721@mannix.iros1.UUCP>
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Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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In article <721@mannix.iros1.UUCP>, archambe@sombre.iro.umontreal.ca (Benoit Archambault) writes:
> Have you noticed Tandy"s 1989 catalog ?  No more Multi-pak and much
> less OS9 software advertised than last year. Is it the same situation in the 
> states as we do have in Canada ?

I got a blurb in the mail the other day about Tandy "Express Order" software,
saying I could get a free catalog by calling a certain number.  (BTW, the
times that I could call were downright reasonable for people who work!
Tandy deserves kudos for that, I think.)  I called, talked to a very kindly
woman, and she said I should get the catalog in a couple of weeks.  Said
catalog is supposed to include CoCo software.

I recall seeing a message on CIS saying that much Tandy software (not just CoCo)
would be moving to "Express Order" sales (wherein one calls an 800 number to
order) instead of sales in RS stores.

I personally am rather concerned at the pitifully small amount of new CoCo
software that Tandy has come out with (ROM cartridge games?  who cares?),
and as a non-credit-card holder, I'm a bit bothered about the possibility of
not being able to use this service, and I would hope that one can still at
least see software on display in stores, but it does seem a fairly nice way
to order software with minimal hassle.

	James Jones

The above opinions are mine--all mine!  I've worked a lifetime to become this
opinionated!  No organization necessarily shares my opinions, but that's OK!