"Phil Marlowe" wrote to "Mike Ross" (15 Jul 103  01:40:12@@)
 --- on the topic of "TORX (was DISPOSABLE)"

 PM> What quality control? A couple of years back I
 PM> was talking to a manager of a Radio Shack outlet
 PM> about why they didn't have an advertised item in
 PM> stock. He said RS tests a batch of the items before
 PM> putting them on sale, and the test batch must have
 PM> less than a certain percentage of defective units.
 PM> He said the item I wanted didn't pass the test.

I wouldn't bet my life on what "anyone" involved with R/S says. They
just have to be the most incompetant people on the face of the earth
(after civil servants of course). The trouble began with a leather
tanning company buying up a startup chain of 6 radio parts stores and
franchised the hell out of it. That they managed to make a profit was
despite themselves and thanks to the CB craze in the mid 70's then the
PC in the 80's. Today they barely even sell radio parts at all and the
R/S name is dirt in most tech's books now.
(Let's all have a "we hate Tandy" day!)

 Mike
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