29 Sep
2006
29 Sep
'06
12:38 a.m.
Yes, and given the items stocked nowadays in a Radio
Shack store, I haven't
the faintest idea who their clientele might be.
Sounds like our Maplin shops. There used to be only a very few of them (3
or 4 throughout the UK), they sold nothing but electronic components,
tools, and kits. And their range of components wasn't too bad (most
common TTL, 4000 series CMOS, op-amps, microprocessors, etc).
Now they're in just about every thown, but they sell a very cut-down range
of components, a few kits (but none of their own design), and a lot of
toys, Lo-Fi equipment, and that sort of thing.
As I've said before it's not the loss of the more obscure stuff that's
the problem -- you can order it from RS components or Farnell. It's the
fact that they keep so few components (if any) in stock in the shops. So
if you run out of 10k resistors, or 2N3904 transsitors, or... you
probably won't get them in the local Maplin shop.
-tony