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From: nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: to Tandy Bashing
Keywords: ibm,tandy
Message-ID: <12518@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 14:35:37 GMT
References: <6885@ecsvax.UUCP> <42e370e4.190fc@gtephx.UUCP>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <42e370e4.190fc@gtephx.UUCP>, ellisond@gtephx.UUCP (Dell Ellison) writes:
> In article <6885@ecsvax.UUCP>, msewil@ecsvax.UUCP (Charles R. Ward) writes:
> > ... discount, goes to this nation-wide service feature).  By the way, 
> > my extensive experience dealing with dealers has shown that Tandy
> > sales reps are no less informed that the average shmoo in Computerland,
> > Entre, etc.
> 
> How very, very true.
> It seems like they just memorize the spec sheets and they don't usually know
> much about computers.

Nonsense.  The Entre salesmen (2 of them) I talked to didn't know what a spec
sheet was ... they certainly hadn't memorized one.  I made the mistake of
going in there to try to get some information on Toshiba laptop accessories,
and learn a bit about the Sparcstation 1.  They had a price list for the
accessories (it took them 15 minutes to find it) but didn't know what the
items were.  They had never heard of the Sparcstation 1 even though it was on
the front cover of the latest Byte magazine.

"Franchise?  Doesn't that go along with myrrh?"

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin