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From: doug@letni.LawNet.Com (Doug Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy/Radio Shack Printers
Summary: sniffle sob...
Keywords: Tandy, DMP-200, CGP-220, Printers
Message-ID: <3560@letni.LawNet.Com>
Date: 5 Jun 89 16:44:40 GMT
References: <1994@gmu90x.UUCP> <852@spudge.UUCP> <1572@csm9a.UUCP> <3462@letni.LawNet.Com> <1591@csm9a.UUCP>
Reply-To: doug@letni.LawNet.Com (Doug Davis)
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In article <1591@csm9a.UUCP> japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) writes:
>A few years back we went to 10 different RS's and asked for Coco items
>known to be in the Express Order Catalog... when no one could tell us
>they existed we asked if their was any OTHER source of software for
>Tandy computers... not one store produced an express order catalog...
How many years ago? The express order catalog has only "existed" for
a "few years."  Also what kind of RS store are you dealing with? There
are regular "Radio Shacks" those are the stores that sell doggie radios
as a first prority and computers as a sideline.  Then there are 'Tandy
Computer Centers' Now those sell computers and computer related
equipment, period.

Perhaps a 'few years back' you were correct, but now its awful hard to
find a "Computer Center" sales person who doesn't know what an
"express order" is. Thats how they make their lunch money.
 
>It's real nice that it exists but they ought to tell their shoe salemen!
Why would a shoe salesman need to know about a computer catalog? Thats
for computer salesmen, perhaps if you quit going to shoe stores to
buy computers you would have less of a problem.

>Says a lot about Word Processing on the UNIX platform doesn't it...
>having tried Scrip"shit" on the Coco, Model III, Model 100, and MSDOS
>platforms I found it to be the absolute WORST word processor in each
>(well maybe not worst... there is after all Desk"crate")... I am amased
>that their is nothing better under UNIX???
That is a personal opinion, I would suspect that others dissagree
since RS sells an awlful lot of scripsit(s) especially for MSDOS. Now
that NEXUS is selling scripsit for a whole range of unix machines you
will be seeing more and more of it, coming to get you Joe, you can't escape. 

 
>No wonder I use MSDOS!
Most likely you don't know any better. (appologies to the rest of you, but
                                        that was too easy..)
 
>Maybe Tandy should modify the business practices that alienate so many of
>their users.
If you haven't noticed they have, perhaps if you would stop your confounded 
ranting about how bad tandy is, you might notice that tandy *HAS* improved
quite a bit since the original days.  


doug
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