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From: knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809,comp.os.os9,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Au revoir, Canada?
Keywords: Coco
Message-ID: <7360@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 88 19:19:12 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Last nite I heard on Delphi that Intertan, Inc., Tandy's international
marketing subsidiary, has decided to discontinue Cocos in Canada.
Aside from its ominous portents for the US, this is a real slap in
the face of the folks who have contributed so much hardware and software
to the Coco and OS9.  I had got the impression that MSDOS hadn't
conquered our northern neighbors quite as thoroughly as the US.

I expect Canadians who know what they want can still mail-order
Cocos from US dealers (at cheaper than RadShack prices anyway),
but new Canadian Coconuts will have to be recruited by word-of-mouth,
since they'll never see one in a store.

What is a Canadian Radio Shack store like, anyway?  Can someone who's
seen both countries' give us a description?
-- 
Mike Knudsen  Bell Labs(AT&T)   att!ihlpl!knudsen
"Lawyers are like handguns and nuclear bombs.  Nobody likes them,
but the other guy's got one, so I better get one too."