On 2/9/2015 5:50 PM, Sean Caron wrote: I envy you in the locations with closing stores. Ours appears to be a keeper, so no deals... I know, that sounds horrid, but I shed my tear for RS back in the early 90's when the sales critter didn't know what a 36 pin ribbon cable or IDC Centronics 36 connector (parport) was (they had both), but was all too eager to sell me some batteries. Jim

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Peter Cetinski wrote: Possible, but very very slim. In the mid to late 90s, every now and then some sort of old TRS-80 item would show up in the outlet store here when an older store would find something in the back and send it over. That stuff dried up long ago though. I bought up a very large amount of TRS-80 and early Tandy computer stuff from the outlet here in the mid to late 90s, but I liquidated most of it on eBay ages ago. Somewhere I think I still have a few random printer cables for the Tandy 1000 as well as some 36-pin right angle adapter cables, but not much else. The cassette recorder cables were the first to go, even though I had tons of them. I may also still have a few CoCo DIN type serial cables, but no one ever really wanted those.

Although there are many closing in the greater Metro Detroit area, actually, much to my surprise, only one in four stores is closing in my more immediate locality here in Washtenaw County. It's not clear if the three remaining are franchised stores, or if they are ones that will be converted to cell phone stores. Best, Sean On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jim Brain <brain at jbrain.com> wrote:

Were all the stores corporate owned? -----Original Message----- From: Eric Smith Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 2:05 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: RadioShack Store Closure List If I understand things correctly, the ones on the closure list are the ones that aren't being sold to Sprint. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

They could have overseas stores under a different corporation setup, kind of like how Commodore had a US and UK branch. Its not like RS actually makes anything they just resell other companies stuff so a franchise store might still be able to buy and stock the same stuff. Even the Sprint owned stores have to be stocking some RS products since they are not taking over the whole storefront. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Smith Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 6:58 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: RadioShack Store Closure List I wrote: TeoZ <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote: All of the stores on that closure list, and all of the ones being sold to Sprint, are corporate owned. There are also franchise stores, and the bankruptcy doesn't directly affect those. However, if this kills off Radio Shack corporation, then obviously the franchises will lose also. It's hard for me to envision Radio Shack corporation being able to maintain the supply chain for just the franchises without some really major changes, which would likely make them even less relevant than they are now. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:59 PM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote: Tandy bought Allied in 1970, merged Allied Radio into Radio Shack, and sold off Allied Electronics in 1981.