From Scratch?... (was: Radio Shack (Was: STAPLES ....))

Worst part is that a small town (1500 pop) north of me has just opened a Radio Shack - they are blatently advertising that people can get parts for repairs and self-building - an open mis-advertisement to anyone that actually knows what RS has anymore. It's actually a RS dealer too, not a company store, so they carry less than the RS Co stores do. I was up there yesterday and asked the owner why he'd pay money to lie to people about them having just about anything to do repairs with, his answer was that he does have (or can order) about anything someone needs. So, my next Q was - where do you order from? The RS supply point? That point he got stuck on an finally mumbled that they were outside sources. I asked if these sources included MCM, Digikey, Mouser, Allied, etc - he was stunned that I was on to him. Of course I'm not on his favorite customer list now and I suggested that he might change the wording of his radio ads soon so that he's not misleading his prospective client/customer base. => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Sellam Ismail => Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:57 AM => To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => Subject: Re: From Scratch?... (was: Radio Shack (Was: STAPLES ....)) => => => On 18 Feb 2002, Frank McConnell wrote: => => > Take a look at <http://www.kce.com/junk.htm> for starters. Diffs that => > I know of: Curtiss Trading Co. is gone. RA Enterprises is gone. => > Sharon Industries is somewhere else now. Alltronics is apparently => > mostly web-and-mail order these days, for a while they had moved in => > with Schad but this appears to have not lasted. => => Alltronics still has a store front as far as I know. Prices are steep, => not too much classic stuff anymore, and if there is the price is even => steeper. I avoid going there. => => Sellam Ismail Vintage => Computer Festival => ----------------------------------------------------------------- => ------------- => International Man of Intrigue and Danger => http://www.vintage.org => => * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *