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Franchise store to
open in Jerusalem
Radio Shack has brought the lat-
est in computer technology to
Jerusalem, one of the oldest and
most historically significant cities
in the world.
Arie Shemesh and Amiram
Shore, co-owners of Sysmal Sys-
tems and Data Products will open
their third Radio Shack dealership
in Israel. They currently own two
other dealerships in Israel, Store
L075 in Tel Aviv and Store L307 in
Haifa. According to Amiram Shore,
the newest store will be the first in
Jerusalem to offer full sales and
service of microcomputers.
The signing of the dealership
agreement for the new Jerusalem
store took place August 10 during
the International Dealer meeting at
the Americana Hotel in downtown
Fort Worth, Texas. Representing
Radio Shack at the ceremony were
Jerry Colella, vice president of
Franchise International, and Tom
Lish, divisional manager of the
Continental Division.Frager new buyer for TRS-80 lines
David Frager,
former com-
puter center in-
structor and
product design
engineer with
Radio Shack Re-
search and De-
velopment, has
been promotedFrager
to buyer in theComputer Merchandising Depart-
ment. He will be buyer for the
TRS-80 Model 4, 4P, Model III and
Model I product lines. He reports
directly to Mark Yamagata, direc-
tor of Computer Merchandising,
Personal Computer Products.
A six-year veteran of Radio
Shack, David Frager joined the
Company as a salesmaker and
temporary manager for several
Memphis, Tenn. area stores while
attending school at State Techni-
cal Institute in Memphis. Frager
later worked as a CMR at the first
Company computer center in the
area, RSCC 7652-Memphis. One
year later, Frager returned toRoberts to be VIS product manager
Effective Sep-
tember 26,
1983, Jim Ro-
berts has joined
Radio Shack as
VIS product
manager. He will
be responsible
for marketing of
VIS (Videotex and
mation System)
Corporation.Roberts
Office Infor-
for TandyVIS is an electronic filing cabinet
that allows one to store and
retrieve text, programs and graph-
ics, typically via telecommunica-
tions, to consumers of the
information. For more information
on the system, see page 17 of the
Radio Shack Computer Catalog,
RSC-10.
"The product is just now being
released," said Roberts, "and it is
probably the newest and most ex-
citing software solution in the mi-
cro marketplace." VIS is also the
most sophisticated system cur-
rently offered by Tandy Corpora-
6tion. Comparable systems from
other manufacturers range from
10 to 15 times the cost of VIS. "We
are getting a lot of interest in the
product from large corporations in-
terested in supplying their employ-
ees with information. We are also
hearing from companies inter-
ested in mass-market systems,"
he said. Roberts reports directly to
Carroll Reeves, director of Com-
mercial Sales.
Roberts is no newcomer to
Radio Shack, having served nine
and a half years in store and dis-
trict management for Radio Shack.
He served for four years as a dis-
trict manager. His last DM assign-
ment was in the old Fort Worth
Region. Prior to rejoining Radio
Shack in September of this year,
Roberts worked two years for Xe-
rox Corporation's Retail Markets
Division, concentrating in retailing
of office products. He later worked
for Corvus Systems, manufacturer
of mass storage devices and local
area networks for micros.school full-time, taking classes in
computer engineering at Statel
Tech while also working as an in-
structor at 7652. He graduated
from State Tech in May 1980, re-
ceiving an associate's in computer
engineering.
In July 1980, Frager transferred
to Radio Shack Research and De-
velopment in Fort Worth, Texas as
a technician involved in new prod-
uct development. "Six to eight
months later, I was promoted to an
associate engineering position
and was responsible for my own
product designs," he said. Frager
was involved in the development of
the 8-megabyte hard disk, the
Model I double-density board and
was responsible for the develop-
ment of the Printer Interface Se-
lector (26-1498), the RS-232
Interface Selector (26-1499), the U
Deluxe RS-232 Program Pack
(26-2226), the Color Computer 2-
Disk Interface (26-3029) and the
Printer Controller (26-1269).
David Frager, 25, is single and
attends the University of Texas
at Arlington.
September sales
show steady rise
Tandy Corporation announced
recently that consolidated sales
for the month of September were
$198,476,000, an increase of 15%
over the September 1982 sales of
$173,163,000. Tandy's U.S. Radio
Shack division recorded a 15%
gain to $154,302,000 during Sep-
tember 1983 from $134,065,000 in
September 1982. Sales of U.S.
Radio Shack stores in existence
more than one year rose 13% dur-
ing September 1983.
Consolidated sales for the first
quarter of Fiscal Year 1984 were
$583,429,000, an increase of 13%
over the year earlier sales of
$517,111,000. Net income per
share rose 10% to 57 cents from 52
cents a year earlier. Net income for
the quarter ended September 30,
1983 was $59,639,000, an 110/
increase over the fiscal 1983K
first quarter net income of
$53,694,000.
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