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...RADIO SHACK. The strong-selling TRS-80 Color Computer costs $399, down $98 from last year. Tandy Corp., which has previously sold through its Radio Shack stores, this month will begin offering a companion version of the Color Computer at independent television dealers. Tandy's market share for low-priced computers...
Soon, a real estate agent (Nicky Henson) appears, not to show the house but to have a weekend shack-up with his Popsy (Rowena Roberts). He knows that the couple who own the house have slunk off to Spain for a tax dodge. What he does not know is that they are about to slink back. In no time, sheiks and burglars are added to the mix, along with the mandatory defrocking of women and the depantsing of men and doors popping open and slamming shut as if by the ghost of Feydeau...
...computer on the market, small had never seemed so beautiful. Despite its graceless design-a cross between a World War II field radio and a shrunken instrument panel of a DC-3-the 24-lb. machine combined most of the features of a fully loaded Apple or Radio Shack computer. Better yet, it was completely portable. Sales immediately took off, and some 30,000 units have been sold to date. Osborne carry-along machines are already being used in courtrooms (lawyers' briefs can be recalled on the screen for a quick read), in the wilds of Kenya (to gather...
...cheapest hand-held machines, like Radio Shack's new TRS-80 PC2 ($280), are likely to be the most popular, despite drawbacks. Their tiny, one-line display screens are better for solving engineering problems or showing long strings of numbers than for serious writing or business programming, and their calculator-type keyboards are much harder to master than those of larger desktop computers. But they remind some users of the proverbial dog walking on its hind legs: what is surprising is not how well they work, but that they work at all. One U.S. insurance company is considering buying...
Despite Japan's formidable track record in marketing to the U.S. consumer, American computer executives are downplaying the Japanese challenge. Says Radio Shack Vice President Jon Shirley: "They don't understand office automation, small business computing or have a clear grasp of the applications these machines are used for." Adds another top industry official: "I don't think the Japanese have ever faced this kind of competition in a particular market. We've got a very, very strong industry with extensive distribution, software support and computer experience...