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dickie Dick comes back with free shipping, wonder if $10 discount works ;)?
DSE FREE Freight This Friday, $1.50 for a Tandy 1m USBA to Female USBA Cable etc
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webtherapist on 08/08/2014 - 09:10 dicksmith.com.au (462 clicks)
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I'd buy it just to have something branded as Tandy haha.
Ha. Was gonna say the same thing.
The memories!
Ended up buying 2 haha.
"InterTAN Australia ran Tandy stores until 2002, when it was announced that Woolworths Limited would acquire them for A$114 million and merge them into their existing Dick Smith Electronics chain. After the merger, Woolworths found Tandy to be in poor condition and has been trying to rejuvenate that part of the business since. As of 2012 Tandy stores were converted into Dick Smith stores or closed down both before and after Dick Smith's sale to Anchorage Capital Partners."
The above is from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack#Australia
Tandy still survives in the US, but have re-named as RadioShack Corporation. If you are old enough, you may remember the ancient TRS-80 computers from the dawn of the personal computer era. the "TRS" stood for Tandy RadioShack.
Or to us C64 owners who called them Trash 80s
Australian branded and sold computer made in Hong Kong and monitor made in Korea in the 1980's. Who would of thought an Australian business back in early 1980's selling overseas made stuff. Seems it's no new thing. So much for the buy aussie made.
That's pretty interesting, I didn't know that Tandy and Radioshack were the same company.
i had a Tandy CoCo3 computer, my 2nd computer after the tricky dicky VZ300! colour screen, great sound, awesome keyboard, cartridge slot for instant gaming, hours and hours of fun, and by 'fun' i mean typing in by hand lots and lots of Basic lines of code from magazines…
I remember the days of cartridge slots (Atari 2100) where games used to load quickly. Then along came tape data drives (Commodore 64) where games then took at times half an hour to load.
@hollykryten:
yes the cartridge slot(aka program pak) not only ran programs but one of the reasons i went with the Coco was because you could also get hardware expansion in the form of cartridges including disk controllers, RS232 ports, speech synthesizers etc
But the Coco was really advanced for it's time, had the powerful Motorola 6809 cpu instead of other computers with the cheaper Zilog Z80, how many remember OS9 on the Coco? to paraphrase wiki it was a real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user, Unix-like operating system that was the grand daddy to OSes today! you could have 2 or 3 people on the one pc and real time slicing multitasking, incredible stuff for the early 80s!
I did a search for Tandy (http://search.dicksmith.com.au/search#w=tandy) and there are only 11 products. It's like they're using a generic manufacturer and sticking Tandy stickers on random products.
Yes. I recently bought some Tandy USB to micro USB cables from Dick Smith online. $1.50 each delivered they were on a friday free delivery.
Thanks OP! Just in time as I need an USB extension cable for my desktop PC :-)
For some reason they just charge me $1.50 instead of $1.99.
$1.50 Now
Is it me or does the Sort By feature on Dick Smith online most of the time doesn't work?. Their site is becoming more useless by the day.
Yep, I've found that too.
3m USBA male to USBA female cable is $2.99 delivered. Looks like it's a 3m extension able. The one mentioned in the topic is the 1m extension cable. http://www.dicksmith.com.au/camera-accessories/tandy-usba-ma…
So seems like if you need 3m of cable for the $2.99 you come out ahead in price. It's cheaper to buy 1 x 3m USB cable than it is to buy 3 x 1m cables and join them together. 3 x 1m cables at $1.50 each = $4.50 but 1 x 3m cable at $2.99 = 3m length of cable. Better bang for the buck?. That's if you need a 3m length of cable.
I don't know why the comment was negged. I was only just showing a good bang for the buck.
Don't worry. Some people are blind to the whole 'value for money' aspect of things and just look for a cheaper price, regardless of what they are actually getting. ;)
The $10 off works for $50 and over, plus free shipping - CODE: DS29520
Thanks, finally got The Last of Us for $50 delivered
I really want to justify this but I just can't. Great value though.
Out of stock
At least the 3m cable version is still in stock.
Tandy is still around? Amazing.