15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
8:15 a.m.
On Dec 14, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
The good old days of Radio Shack, were the electronics
parts isles
outnumbered the rest of the store, where you could buy just about
anything for hobbyist work without having to weed through 5,000
radio controlled crapola toys, cellular displays and other useless
nonsense...
When Radio Shack was a respectable place to shop, and not a mini-
Circuit City wannabe
To be fair...Radio Shack did indeed descend into the murky depths
of being an overcommercialized cell phone and cheap stereo equipment
pusher, but just recently, over the past two years or so, they've
started to come back.
In that time, the electronic parts inventories of my two local RS
stores has more than doubled. They've inked some sort of an
agreement with Parallax, Inc. and are now selling their stuff,
including Basic Stamps and various sensors and robotics goodies. Not
all stores stock all of this stuff, but I've seen bits and pieces of
it at several of them.
This is a huge step in the right direction. I suggest we support
them in this effort in any way we can.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL