Re: Tandy sale 1991
One of their more engaging gimmicks was the Free Torch, an enormous thing with a long grey body. It was free all right, but just as you were about to walk out with it they'd ask you whether you wanted batteries for it - it took something like 5 or 6 cells, so obviously the real wheeze was to sell lots of batteries. They only had to give you the torch once, and with any luck you would come back at least a few times more to buy more batteries for it.
Just read Tony's post above and I agree Tandy UK were great for service manuals. I have a couple of original service manuals for 1980s handheld CB radios, one of which came to me second hand with a ruined Toko coil in it. I was even able to buy that part from their service department, after quoting the part number from the manual.
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