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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Radio Shack garbage
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:36:32 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.163632.10807@bilver.uucp>
- References: <C05qz7.Mp7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan2.084526.1056@cmkrnl.com> <1993Jan2.214615.6951@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan2.214615.6951@wam.umd.edu> bladin@wam.umd.edu (Ilana J. Getz) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan2.084526.1056@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- >>In article <C05qz7.Mp7@cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
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- >>> Radio Shack makes total garbage; most likely your problem is all Radio
- >>> Shack's fault. I would never buy a Radio Shack product.
-
- >>This is a trifle overstated. RS's upper-end scanners, for example, are widely
- >>considered to be among the best available, and they have a long history of
- >>reliability. ....
-
-
- >I worked at good 'ol RS when I was in college, and I think I can provide
- >some insight.
-
- >Radio Shack manufactures about 50% of th stuff they sell, and the rest is
- >farmed out to other suppliers. For example, when I worked there, they made
- >all of the stereo receivers, but none of the VCR's. To make matters worse,
- >the situation is not consistant within a product line. They made all of their
- >low-end cassette decks, but none of their high end ones. The cheap ones were
- >crap, and the high end ones were pretty good. On top of all of this, the
- >list of outside suppliers chages from year to year. One years models may be
- >repackaged Sharp TVs & VCRs, the next may be a different model all together.
-
- The inconsitancy from year to year is typical of many large volume
- retailers who don't manufacture all of what they sell. Sears Kenmore
- line of home units are made by different manufacturers too.
-
- >What's the bottom line? A total lack of consistancy. You simply cannot say
- >that "all of the RS gear is bad," or even that all of one particular
- >line of products is good or bad. They may all come from a different place.
-
- And Tandy corporation also manufacturers for other companies and brands
- for them. At one time Tandy was making '386 based computers for
- Panasonic and DEC (yup Digital Equipment Corp)
-
- I remember being in one shop and a tech saw the Panasonic machine that
- Tandy built. Some really nice construction.
-
- >I agree that it is best to avoid RS products in general, but not because
- >they are all bad. Rather, there is no way to know which ones are bad.
-
- That's the same way for virtually anything anymore - from automobiles
- to appliances.
-
-
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