5 Feb
2015
5 Feb
'15
3:21 p.m.
So ..... Radio Shack is (more or less) finally dead.
There are still plenty of RS stores open for business. (Although I read
this morning that they're not getting new shipments, which makes them
essentially clearance stores.) Apparently the company is legally allowed
to close a maximum of 200 stores per year. Or something like that.
Horn-tooting: the Wall Street Journal interviewed me about RS back at
World Maker Faire last fall. They published the story online today and
it'll be in print tomorrow.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/strategic-confusion-put-radioshack-at-the-mercy…
Scroll aaaaaaaaaaaall the way down to the bottom. (LOL, yeah, I'm
important!)
5 Feb
5 Feb
3:27 p.m.
So ..... Radio Shack is (more or less) finally dead.
RadioShack had it essentially right in the 2014 Super Bowl commercial - the 80s called and
they did want their store back. What they screwed up was thinking that meant the old store
had to go and be replaced with the current monstrosity.
RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated it items like cheap
cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and do it yourself stuff. Yes, they still
would have to close a number of locations (do you really need a ratshack on every corner?)
but what would have been left behind would have thrived...
3:37 p.m.
I'll miss them - they are still convenient when I need a fuse, bulb or lots
of other small passive components. Sure, there's Mouser, but $8 in
shipping when all I need is a couple of fuses is ridiculous. Don't even
mention $$$Digi-Key$$$.
And I agree, they could have ridden the new maker wave.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Ali <cctalk at fahimi.net> wrote:
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
So ..... Radio
Shack is (more or less) finally dead.
RadioShack had it essentially right in the 2014 Super Bowl commercial -
the 80s called and they did want their store back. What they screwed up was
thinking that meant the old store had to go and be replaced with the
current monstrosity.
RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated it
items like cheap cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and do it
yourself stuff. Yes, they still would have to close a number of locations
(do you really need a ratshack on every corner?) but what would have been
left behind would have thrived...
3:50 p.m.
On February 5, 2015 at 2:37:54 PM, Ian S. King (isking at uw.edu) wrote:
RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated it items like cheap
cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and do it yourself stuff.?
A few of the stores around here actually do carry that kind of stuff as well as
transistors and resistors and a number of other stuff that, today, people might say falls
under the ?Maker? style.?
Maybe they weren?t committed enough?
Having been born in 1970, I don?t recall much about the pre-Big Box Store days. I remember
a few independent Big-Box-Stores like Sound Trek in Metairie, LA, but mostly I remember
reading about the bigger stores pretty early on. Did RS just try to be Best Buy but in a
smaller more distributed way??
When I lived in the Boston area, I did a lot of roam-around tech support and it was so
worth it to go to a place in Needham, MA called You-Do-It Electronics which seems a lot
like what RS used to be. They cater to hobbyist and industry and I honestly couldn?t begin
to count how many times I went there.?
Maybe if RS had been able to stick to its roots, it could have been a nationwide YDI.
Cheers,
m
3:54 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Mike Whalen wrote:
When I lived in the Boston area, I did a lot of
roam-around tech support
and it was so worth it to go to a place in Needham, MA called You-Do-It
Electronics which seems a lot like what RS used to be. They cater to
hobbyist and industry and I honestly couldn?t begin to count how many
times I went there.
I visited there on a Boston trip, some years back. Neat place!
Baynesville Electronics in Towson, MD is similar.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
4:05 p.m.
On Feb 5, 2015 12:54 PM, "Mike Loewen" <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us>
wrote:
Also known as "You Blew it Electronics" when I lived in the Boston area in
the 1980's.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Mike Whalen wrote:
> When I lived in the Boston area, I did a lot of roam-around tech support
and it
was so worth it to go to a place in Needham, MA called You-Do-It
Electronics which seems a lot like what RS used to be. They cater to
hobbyist and industry and I honestly couldn?t begin to count how many times
I went there.
I visited there on a Boston trip, some years back. Neat place!
Baynesville
Electronics in Towson, MD is similar.
4:13 p.m.
On Feb 5, 2015 1:10 PM, "Mike Whalen" <mikew at thecomputervalet.com>
wrote:
On February 5, 2015 at 3:05:16 PM, Glen Slick (glen.slick at gmail.com)
wrote:
Also known as "You Blew it Electronics" when
I lived in the Boston area
in
the 1980's.
What? Why is that?
Because that's were you went for replacement parts after you blew something
up. :)
4:14 p.m.
On February 5, 2015 at 3:13:18 PM, Glen Slick (glen.slick at gmail.com) wrote:
Because that's were you went for replacement parts after you blew something?
up. :)?
LOL! That?s hilarious. Yes, I can see that. You could definitely get yourself in a lot of
trouble with stuff available there.?
Cheers,
m
5:33 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Ali wrote:
RadioShack had it essentially right in the 2014 Super
Bowl commercial -
the 80s called and they did want their store back. What they screwed up
was thinking that meant the old store had to go and be replaced with the
current monstrosity.
RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated
it items like cheap cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and do
it yourself stuff. Yes, they still would have to close a number of
locations (do you really need a ratshack on every corner?) but what
would have been left behind would have thrived...
No, they would have had to take it back to the 1960s and 1970s.
By the 1980s, Radio Shack was already committed to changing from hobbyist
supplies to crappy consumer electronics.
6:43 p.m.
On 05/02/2015 22:33, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Ali wrote:
Radio Shack or as they were known in the UK - Tandy - Are long gone
RadioShack had it essentially right in the 2014
Super Bowl commercial -
the 80s called and they did want their store back. What they screwed up
was thinking that meant the old store had to go and be replaced with the
current monstrosity.
RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated
it items like cheap cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and do
it yourself stuff. Yes, they still would have to close a number of
locations (do you really need a ratshack on every corner?) but what
would have been left behind would have thrived...
No, they would have had to take
it back to the 1960s and 1970s.
By the 1980s, Radio Shack was already committed to changing from hobbyist
supplies to crappy consumer electronics.
from here.
We have a UK alternative called
Maplin. They have recently moved into being
flashy high stores selling own brand consumer electronics and mobile phone
accessories. The component side in the store is minimal.
Their on line store is still good for some hard to get components.
We do have Farnell, CPC and RS components,
They are mail order only but have huge number of different stock lines.
I also buy within the EEC as there is no customs duty to pay and VAT is
the same as here or less.
6 Feb
6 Feb
12:26 a.m.
On 2015-Feb-05, at 3:43 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
On 05/02/2015 22:33, Fred Cisin wrote:
.. how things change ..
When I was a kid in the 70's, Vancouver (Canada) was a backwater city situated on the
edge of civilisation.
At that time we had half-a-dozen real, industrial-grade electronic suppliers, in addition
to the plethora of RS stores and such lower-grade component sources sprinkled around the
region.
40 years later, Vancouver is a "world-class" city, assessed by some or other as
the second most expensive real-estate on the planet, the most expensive to live in North
America, a player in the "global economy".
We are now down to 2 or 3 small-to-mid-size stores to which one can go to buy an
off-the-shelf transistor or IC or capacitor.
(Quoted phrases above presented with some note of derision.)
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Ali wrote:
Radio Shack or as they were known in the UK - Tandy - Are long gone from here.
We have a UK alternative called Maplin. They have recently moved into being
flashy high stores selling own brand consumer electronics and mobile phone
accessories. The component side in the store is minimal.
Their on line store is still good for some hard to get components.
We do have Farnell, CPC and RS components,
They are mail order only but have huge number of different stock lines.
I also buy within the EEC as there is no customs duty to pay and VAT is the same as here
or less. RadioShack had it essentially right in the 2014
Super Bowl commercial -
the 80s called and they did want their store back. What they screwed up
was thinking that meant the old store had to go and be replaced with the
current monstrosity.
RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated
it items like cheap cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and do
it yourself stuff. Yes, they still would have to close a number of
locations (do you really need a ratshack on every corner?) but what
would have been left behind would have thrived...
No, they would have had to take
it back to the 1960s and 1970s.
By the 1980s, Radio Shack was already committed to changing from hobbyist
supplies to crappy consumer electronics.
1:22 a.m.
Babylon system is the vampire for the empire
Sucking the children day by day.
Building church and university
Deceiving the people continually.
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
On 2015-Feb-05, at 3:43 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
from
here.
On 05/02/2015 22:33, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Ali wrote:
>> RadioShack had it essentially right in the 2014 Super Bowl commercial -
>> the 80s called and they did want their store back. What they screwed up
>> was thinking that meant the old store had to go and be replaced with
the
>> current monstrosity.
>> RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated
>> it items like cheap cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and
do
>> it yourself stuff. Yes, they still would
have to close a number of
>> locations (do you really need a ratshack on every corner?) but what
>> would have been left behind would have thrived...
> No, they would have had to take it back to the 1960s and 1970s.
> By the 1980s, Radio Shack was already committed to changing from
hobbyist
supplies
to crappy consumer electronics.
Radio Shack or as they were known in the UK - Tandy - Are long gone We have a UK alternative called Maplin. They have
recently moved into
being
flashy high stores selling own brand consumer
electronics and mobile
phone
accessories. The component side in the store is
minimal.
Their on line store is still good for some hard to get components.
We do have Farnell, CPC and RS components,
They are mail order only but have huge number of different stock lines.
I also buy within the EEC as there is no customs duty to pay and VAT is
the same
as here or less.
.. how things change ..
When I was a kid in the 70's, Vancouver (Canada) was a backwater city
situated on the edge of civilisation.
At that time we had half-a-dozen real, industrial-grade electronic
suppliers, in addition to the plethora of RS stores and such lower-grade
component sources sprinkled around the region.
40 years later, Vancouver is a "world-class" city, assessed by some or
other as the second most expensive real-estate on the planet, the most
expensive to live in North America, a player in the "global economy".
We are now down to 2 or 3 small-to-mid-size stores to which one can go to
buy an off-the-shelf transistor or IC or capacitor.
(Quoted phrases above presented with some note of derision.)
2:33 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:43:55PM +0000, Rod Smallwood wrote:
[...]
[Maplin's] on line store is still good for some
hard to get components.
That's not really been my experience, except that they have relatively poor
turn-over of components to the point it's almost a source of NOS parts.
We do have Farnell, CPC and RS components, They are
mail order only but have
huge number of different stock lines.
RS have a few trade counters dotted around the country. The most convenient one
for Londoners is probably the one in the industrial estate to the west of the
former Olympic site. The River Lea makes public transport and pedestrian access
a bit of a chore though. (I used to go over that way by bike.)
To make it up, there are a few exemplary classic East End greasy spoon cafes in
and around that estate.
I also buy within the EEC as there is no customs duty
to pay and VAT is the
same as here or less.
Only in the specific case of physical goods; for "digital" goods the vendors
are supposed to charge *your* local VAT rate, i.e. 20%. Many I know have gone
"sod all of that paperwork, I'm not going to sell outside my home country any
more".
For small shipments from outside the EEA, HMRC can't be bothered to levy VAT
and import duty anyway, especially if they don't recognise the sender. What
this mainly seems to mean is that I can buy random eBay tat from the other side
of the world tax-free, but American vendors are greedy (or shamefully
inefficient) and gouge so much on the shipping that even an empty box would
attract punitive charges at this end.
3:47 a.m.
On 6 February 2015 at 07:33, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:43:55PM +0000, Rod
Smallwood wrote:
[...]
I won't do business with Maplin any more. Not ever.
They are cretins. I've had really bad experiences with the video cards
they sell, in particular. They tend to fail in days or weeks, and then
Maplin will refuse to accept them back unless they are completely dead.
They insist on "testing" them, which means you have to wait *weeks* for
them to turn around and tell you that the card is "fine" because they can
plug it into a bench machine and get video.
Never mind that as soon as you use a video mode above 800x600, the display
fails because the memory is reject garbage or something. I wouldn't buy a
fuse there.
--
Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: "The Future Begins Tomorrow"
Visit us at: http://www.yoyodyne-propulsion.net
--------
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." -- Jonathan Swift
[Maplin's] on line store is still good for
some hard to get components.
4:53 a.m.
So, I've now had to sit through 20 of these "Radio Shack" threads.
Here's
all the aspects:
- They were really great when I needed them (30 years ago)
- Here is my brilliant business plan to have kept them afloat (be like 30
years ago)
- I did go in there recently, and they were awful
- Here's what is sort of like Radio Shack was 30 years ago, now (surprise,
they're all mail order)
But I'm not bored or anything.
I think if Radio Shack had shifted to a Newegg model, it might have gone
on, but I bet they'd have to do the same thing Newegg is now doing, which
is diversifying into a nerdtastic amazon, and sticking sketchy-o-matic
third party resellers under their brand umbrella (which Staples, Walmart,
Office Depot, Target and everyone else is doing).
I will say the coolest place I've been in that's physical in the last few
years was the unassumingly named "Electronics Supply Co." in Kansas City,
MO. It makes you want to build a robot.
http://www.eskc.com/Default.asp
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:47 AM, John Many Jars <john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net
wrote:
> On 6 February 2015 at 07:33, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:43:55PM +0000, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> > [...]
> > > [Maplin's] on line store is still good for some hard to get
components.
> >
>
> I won't do business with Maplin any more. Not ever.
>
> They are cretins. I've had really bad experiences with the video cards
> they sell, in particular. They tend to fail in days or weeks, and then
> Maplin will refuse to accept them back unless they are completely dead.
> They insist on "testing" them, which means you have to wait *weeks* for
> them to turn around and tell you that the card is "fine" because they can
> plug it into a bench machine and get video.
>
> Never mind that as soon as you use a video mode above 800x600, the display
> fails because the memory is reject garbage or something. I wouldn't buy a
> fuse there.
>
>
> --
> Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: "The Future Begins Tomorrow"
> Visit us at: http://www.yoyodyne-propulsion.net
>
> --------
> "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,
> that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." -- Jonathan Swift
>
5:14 a.m.
On 6 February 2015 at 09:53, Jason Scott <jason at textfiles.com> wrote:
So, I've now had to sit through 20 of these
"Radio Shack" threads. Here's
all the aspects:
Hey, I spent my childhood hanging around that place. It's special. (:
--
Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: "The Future Begins Tomorrow"
Visit us at: http://www.yoyodyne-propulsion.net
--------
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." -- Jonathan Swift
3:51 p.m.
I won't do business with Maplin any more. Not ever.
This is one reason we called them Craplin. Even for simple components they
seemed to have a ridiculously high failure rate. We learnt to test everything
from there.
And getting a refund was a hassle. The couple of times I had defective
components from RS or Farnell they would send replacements next
day with no problems (OK, a couple of ICs is peanuts to them, but it is
still good customer service). With Maplin I once had to say simply
'Are you going to honour my statutory rights or am I going to walk
out of this shop and go straight to Trading Standards?'
They are cretins. I've had really bad experiences
with the video cards
they sell, in particular. They tend to fail in days or weeks, and then
Maplin will refuse to accept them back unless they are completely dead.
They insist on "testing" them, which means you have to wait *weeks* for
them to turn around and tell you that the card is "fine" because they can
plug it into a bench machine and get video.
I shouldn't say this, but a friend of mine (not me, seriously) had this sort of
problem with a (modern) hard drive. His solution was to stick it in a
microwave oven for a few minutes, then send it back...
-tony
3:45 p.m.
[Maplin's] on line store is still good for
some hard to get components.
That's not really been my experience, except that they have relatively poor
turn-over of components to the point it's almost a source of NOS parts. We do have
Farnell, CPC and RS components, They are mail order only but have
huge number of different stock lines.
RS have a few trade counters dotted around the country. The most convenient one
for Londoners is probably the one in the industrial estate to the west of the
former Olympic site. The River Lea makes public transport and pedestrian access
a bit of a chore though. (I used to go over that way by bike.) 
5:28 p.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of tony
duell
Sent: 06 February 2015 20:46
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: Radio Shack
>
> > [Maplin's] on line store is still good for some hard to get
components.
That's not really been my experience, except that they have relatively
poor turn-over of components to the point it's almost a source of NOS
parts.
Maplin are often known as 'Craplin' by my friends....
25 years ago they had a reasonable range of components, and had most in
stock in the shops. They were very useful for 'emergency' supplies -- to
extent that when I was in Bristol there was a common
question in the lab
'Anyone going to Craplin today, if so can you get me a couple of 555
timers'
or whatever.
Now they have a few components, but worse, a lot of the interesting lines
are 'web only' and can't be ordered or supplied in shops. This means
ordering
them is as big a hassle as doing an RS or Farnell
order, where a much
better
range is available.
You can pick them up at the store using "click and collect"...
We do have Farnell, CPC and RS components, They are
mail order only
but have huge number of different stock lines.
RS have a few trade counters dotted around the country. The most
convenient one for Londoners is probably the one in the industrial
estate to the west of the former Olympic site. The River Lea makes
public transport and pedestrian access a bit of a chore though. (I
used to go over that way by bike.) problems at all.
Now I am in SE London, getting there would be a bit harder. I must try the
E
London one.. Not sure how I would get there, but I
will work it out.
I can remember when Edgware road was lined with electronics shops on
both sides, new and surplus components. In the early 1980s you could get
anything from valves to microprocessors there. And then of course there
was Proops in Tottenham Court Road for interesting surplus stuff. All gone
:-(
-tony
Increasingly even Farnell and RS have limited local stocks of parts. Even
simple components from RS are often only available the following day. I much
prefer to collect from trade counter or the store as then I don't need to be
in when the mail man comes. However I see that E-Bay offers a similar
service, where you can pick up items at a local "Argos" store.... (A
catalogue store)...
Dave
G4UGM
7 Feb
7 Feb
1:29 a.m.
[Maplin]
Can you? I am sure I've found items for which you can't 'click and
collect'
and none of the shops I tried in London could order them for me to collect
in that shop.
Looks like they may have fixed that though.
[RS Trade Counter]
Now they have
a few components, but worse, a lot of the interesting lines
are 'web only' and can't be ordered or supplied in shops. This means
ordering
them is as big a hassle as doing an RS or Farnell order, where a much
better
range is available.
You can pick them up at the store using "click and collect"... Increasingly even Farnell and RS have limited local
stocks of parts. Even
simple components from RS are often only available the following day. I much
prefer to collect from trade counter or the store as then I don't need to be
Ditto. I hate waiting around for parcels that may not come...
Have the RS stuff at the trade counter next day is effectively next day
delivery without paying for it and without the hassle of waiting for the
parcel. I would prefer to just pop into a shop for my components, but....
in when the mail man comes. However I see that E-Bay
offers a similar
service, where you can pick up items at a local "Argos" store.... (A
catalogue store)...
Not for everything surely? I wasn't given that option when buying some
old telephones (another of my interests) from the States.
-tony
5 Feb
5 Feb
6:52 p.m.
On 2/5/2015 3:33 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Ali wrote:
I thought they started in the 70's ... The name brand stuff was always
remarked surplus.
Ben.
RadioShack had it essentially right in the 2014
Super Bowl commercial -
the 80s called and they did want their store back. What they screwed up
was thinking that meant the old store had to go and be replaced with the
current monstrosity.
RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated
it items like cheap cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and do
it yourself stuff. Yes, they still would have to close a number of
locations (do you really need a ratshack on every corner?) but what
would have been left behind would have thrived...
No, they would have had to take it back to the 1960s and 1970s.
By the 1980s, Radio Shack was already committed to changing from hobbyist
supplies to crappy consumer electronics. 
7 Feb
7 Feb
2:45 p.m.
On 02/05/2015 04:33 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Ali wrote:
I just visited my local one (I wasn't even sure if it was still there) and
was actually quite surprised with how many components they had - not
significant by any means of course, but still far more than I remember
there being in the last store I went into (which was of similar size, but
well over a decade ago now).
They didn't have a 7809 regulator, which is what I actually went there for
on the offchance they had one, but there were enough
probably-useful-at-some-future-date bits and pieces that I'll go back in a
few weeks to see if it's worth loading up on stuff. The guy behind the
counter said 6-8 weeks before they close the doors for good - although
component prices might not be dropped much below the 25% off that they're
currently at (I should have asked where the unsold stock was going).
cheers
Jules
RadioShack had it essentially right in the 2014
Super Bowl commercial -
the 80s called and they did want their store back. What they screwed up
was thinking that meant the old store had to go and be replaced with the
current monstrosity.
RadioShack should have brought back the store of the 1980s and updated
it items like cheap cables, Raspberry Pi kits, etc. I.E. hobbyist and do
it yourself stuff. Yes, they still would have to close a number of
locations (do you really need a ratshack on every corner?) but what
would have been left behind would have thrived...
No, they would have had to take it back to the 1960s and 1970s.
By the 1980s, Radio Shack was already committed to changing from hobbyist
supplies to crappy consumer electronics. 
3:29 p.m.
On 02/07/2015 11:45 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
They didn't have a 7809 regulator, which is what I
actually went there
for on the offchance they had one...
I'd be surprised if they did, even in the old days. How much call is
there for a 9 volt positive linear regulator?
but there were enough
probably-useful-at-some-future-date bits and
pieces that I'll go back in a few weeks to see if it's worth loading
up on stuff. The guy behind the counter said 6-8 weeks before they
close the doors for good - although component prices might not be
dropped much below the 25% off that they're currently at (I should
have asked where the unsold stock was going).
One of the bargains, if you can use it, is the wire-wrap tool about the
size of a large jeweler's screwdriver. An end cap pops off to reveal an
AWG 30 wire stripper. I think I found one at about $7.00 there.
Compare that with the cost of an OK or Vector WW tool.
--Chuck
8 Feb
8 Feb
12:21 p.m.
On 02/07/2015 02:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 02/07/2015 11:45 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Perhaps not much, although I was surprised that they even had 7805's and
7812's. There was a variable regulator (most likely the LM317 that Dave
mentioned) - but I think they wanted close to $5 for that, and I had a
feeling that put it more into "wait until I'm next ordering components
online" territory.
They didn't have a 7809 regulator, which is
what I actually went there
for on the offchance they had one...
I'd be surprised if they did, even in the old days. How much call is there
for a 9 volt positive linear regulator? One of the bargains, if you can use it, is the
wire-wrap tool about the
size of a large jeweler's screwdriver. An end cap pops off to reveal an
AWG 30 wire stripper. I think I found one at about $7.00 there.
Yes, it's mainly the DIY circuit fabrication/repair things that I want to
keep an eye on - their breadboards were rather expensive, but some of the
tools and bare PCBs might be worth getting in a few weeks if the prices
drop a little more.
I might load up on D-sub connectors and DIL IC sockets, too.
cheers
Jules
12:24 p.m.
Alright well i am heading to Radio Shack, See what kind of deals i can find. :)
Charles
On Feb 8, 2015, at 12:21 PM, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>
wrote:
On 02/07/2015 02:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 02/07/2015 11:45 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Perhaps not much, although I was surprised that they even had 7805's and 7812's.
There was a variable regulator (most likely the LM317 that Dave mentioned) - but I think
they wanted close to $5 for that, and I had a feeling that put it more into "wait
until I'm next ordering components online" territory.
They didn't have a 7809 regulator, which is
what I actually went there
for on the offchance they had one...
I'd be surprised if they did, even in the old days. How much call is there
for a 9 volt positive linear regulator? One of the bargains, if you can use it, is the
wire-wrap tool about the
size of a large jeweler's screwdriver. An end cap pops off to reveal an
AWG 30 wire stripper. I think I found one at about $7.00 there.
Yes, it's mainly the DIY circuit fabrication/repair things that I want to keep an eye
on - their breadboards were rather expensive, but some of the tools and bare PCBs might be
worth getting in a few weeks if the prices drop a little more.
I might load up on D-sub connectors and DIL IC sockets, too.
cheers
Jules
7 Feb
7 Feb
3:30 p.m.
At 02:45 PM 2/7/2015, Jules Richardson wrote:
They didn't have a 7809 regulator
Use an LM317T - I just cleaned two stores out of them. Today I dropped $150 between those
two stores.
Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/index.html
5 Feb
5 Feb
3:46 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
So ..... Radio Shack is (more or less) finally dead.
There are still plenty of RS stores open for business. (Although I read
this morning that they're not getting new shipments, which makes them
essentially clearance stores.) Apparently the company is legally allowed to
close a maximum of 200 stores per year. Or something like that.
Horn-tooting: the Wall Street Journal interviewed me about RS back at
World Maker Faire last fall. They published the story online today and
it'll be in print tomorrow.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/strategic-confusion-put-
radioshack-at-the-mercy-of-lenders-1423164004
Scroll aaaaaaaaaaaall the way down to the bottom. (LOL, yeah, I'm
important!)
Behind a paywall, y'all....
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
3:49 p.m.
So ..... Radio
Shack is (more or less) finally dead.
There are still plenty of RS stores open for business. (Although I read
this morning that they're not getting new shipments, which makes them
essentially clearance stores.) Apparently the company is legally allowed to
close a maximum of 200 stores per year. Or something like that.
Horn-tooting: the Wall Street Journal interviewed me about RS back at
World Maker Faire last fall. They published the story online today and
it'll be in print tomorrow.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/strategic-confusion-put-
radioshack-at-the-mercy-of-lenders-1423164004
Scroll aaaaaaaaaaaall the way down to the bottom. (LOL, yeah, I'm
important!)
Behind a paywall, y'all....
3:53 p.m.
yeah the 80?s kept their radio shack?.
90?s kept their radio shack?
anything after that ? is like "Cell Phone Accessory Express?
if you are lucky they might have A switch or A capacitor?. And MAYBE it MIGHT be the
value you actually need? but how many people re-cap their power supply with ONE cap?
how many people need just one cap?
thinking about this is making me angry?. I am glad radio shack is gone? rest in hell!
3:57 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Charles <charles at uniwho.com> wrote:
yeah the 80?s kept their radio shack?.
90?s kept their radio shack?
anything after that ? is like "Cell Phone Accessory Express?
if you are lucky they might have A switch or A capacitor?. And MAYBE it
MIGHT be the value you actually need? but how many people re-cap their
power supply with ONE cap?
how many people need just one cap?
thinking about this is making me angry?. I am glad radio shack is gone?
rest in hell!
If I'm (to use your example) recapping a power supply, I don't mind making
an order with Mouser. But when I need a 10uF electrolytic (happened
recently) I can drive for five minutes, drop a buck or so, stop for a pint
at the pub next door :-) and go fix stuff. They even had a 7805 I needed
for a project - less than $2, as I recall. Mouser would charge me more in
postage.
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
4:37 p.m.
well going along with what you are saying about the ability to buy a 10uf cap
then on for drinks at the pub?.
Why not sell packs of 10, or HELL even packs of 5?
Why not buy all the caps for your PSU at radio shack? your point is MOOT
because you were going to the PUB anyways, Lush. :-)
On Feb 5, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Charles <charles
at uniwho.com> wrote:
yeah the 80?s kept their radio shack?.
90?s kept their radio shack?
anything after that ? is like "Cell Phone Accessory Express?
if you are lucky they might have A switch or A capacitor?. And MAYBE it
MIGHT be the value you actually need? but how many people re-cap their
power supply with ONE cap?
how many people need just one cap?
thinking about this is making me angry?. I am glad radio shack is gone?
rest in hell!
If I'm (to use your example) recapping a power supply, I don't mind
making
an order with Mouser. But when I need a 10uF electrolytic (happened
recently) I can drive for five minutes, drop a buck or so, stop for a pint
at the pub next door :-) and go fix stuff. They even had a 7805 I needed
for a project - less than $2, as I recall. Mouser would charge me more in
postage.
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
4:49 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Charles <charles at uniwho.com> wrote:
well going along with what you are saying about the
ability to buy a 10uf
cap
then on for drinks at the pub?.
Why not sell packs of 10, or HELL even packs of 5?
Why not buy all the caps for your PSU at radio shack? your point is MOOT
because you were going to the PUB anyways, Lush. :-)
And YOUR point - if any - is elusive.
On Feb 5, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Ian S. King <isking at
uw.edu> wrote:
making
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Charles
<charles at uniwho.com> wrote:
> yeah the 80?s kept their radio shack?.
>
> 90?s kept their radio shack?
>
> anything after that ? is like "Cell Phone Accessory Express?
> if you are lucky they might have A switch or A capacitor?. And MAYBE it
> MIGHT be the value you actually need? but how many people re-cap their
> power supply with ONE cap?
>
> how many people need just one cap?
>
> thinking about this is making me angry?. I am glad radio shack is
gone?
rest in
hell!
If I'm (to use your example) recapping a power supply, I don't mind an order with Mouser. But when I need a 10uF
electrolytic (happened
recently) I can drive for five minutes, drop a buck or so, stop for a
pint
at the pub next door :-) and go fix stuff. They
even had a 7805 I needed
for a project - less than $2, as I recall. Mouser would charge me more
in
postage.
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
4:54 p.m.
Well never argue with a know-it-all?
is my point.
The next fact is, Radio Shack is dead.
So Automatically makes my issue with them valid.
They mostly a waste of time.
just like an engineer that can?t even get a mouser order correct.
Maybe to many trips to the PUB? who knows?
I guess your glass is half full.. and you are double fisting it. :)
On Feb 5, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Charles <charles at
uniwho.com> wrote:
well going along with what you are saying about
the ability to buy a 10uf
cap
then on for drinks at the pub?.
Why not sell packs of 10, or HELL even packs of 5?
Why not buy all the caps for your PSU at radio shack? your point is MOOT
because you were going to the PUB anyways, Lush. :-)
And YOUR point - if any - is elusive.
On Feb 5, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Ian S. King
<isking at uw.edu> wrote:
making
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be. On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Charles
<charles at uniwho.com> wrote:
> yeah the 80?s kept their radio shack?.
>
> 90?s kept their radio shack?
>
> anything after that ? is like "Cell Phone Accessory Express?
> if you are lucky they might have A switch or A capacitor?. And MAYBE it
> MIGHT be the value you actually need? but how many people re-cap their
> power supply with ONE cap?
>
> how many people need just one cap?
>
> thinking about this is making me angry?. I am glad radio shack is
gone?
rest in
hell!
If I'm (to use your example) recapping a power supply, I don't mind
an order with Mouser. But when I need a 10uF
electrolytic (happened
recently) I can drive for five minutes, drop a buck or so, stop for a
pint
at the pub next door :-) and go fix stuff. They
even had a 7805 I needed
for a project - less than $2, as I recall. Mouser would charge me more
in
postage.
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
5:25 p.m.
Plonk.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Charles <charles at uniwho.com> wrote:
Well never argue with a know-it-all?
is my point.
The next fact is, Radio Shack is dead.
So Automatically makes my issue with them valid.
They mostly a waste of time.
just like an engineer that can?t even get a mouser order correct.
Maybe to many trips to the PUB? who knows?
I guess your glass is half full.. and you are double fisting it. :)
On Feb 5, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
it
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Charles
<charles at uniwho.com> wrote:
> well going along with what you are saying about the ability to buy a
10uf
cap
then on for drinks at the pub?.
Why not sell packs of 10, or HELL even packs of 5?
Why not buy all the caps for your PSU at radio shack? your point is MOOT
because you were going to the PUB anyways, Lush. :-)
And YOUR point - if any - is elusive.
> On Feb 5, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Charles <charles at uniwho.com> wrote:
>>
>>> yeah the 80?s kept their radio shack?.
>>>
>>> 90?s kept their radio shack?
>>>
>>> anything after that ? is like "Cell Phone Accessory Express?
>>> if you are lucky they might have A switch or A capacitor?. And MAYBE >>> MIGHT be the value you actually need?
but how many people re-cap their
>>> power supply with ONE cap?
>>>
>>> how many people need just one cap?
>>>
>>> thinking about this is making me angry?. I am glad radio shack is
> gone?
>>> rest in hell!
>>>
>>>
>> If I'm (to use your example) recapping a power supply, I don't mind
> making
>> an order with Mouser. But when I need a 10uF electrolytic (happened
>> recently) I can drive for five minutes, drop a buck or so, stop for a
> pint
>> at the pub next door :-) and go fix stuff. They even had a 7805 I
needed
for a project - less than $2, as I recall. Mouser
would charge me more
in
postage.
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
6:32 p.m.
Hmmm, I still have a 16-bit ISA card-edge connector in its blue RS
blister pack sitting on my desk--and I'm listening to the (internet)
radio on a Realistic all-band receiver.
Shows how often I clean my desk off...
--Chuck
7:23 p.m.
Hmmm, I still have a 16-bit ISA card-edge connector in
its blue RS blister
pack sitting on my desk--and I'm listening to the (internet) radio on a
Realistic all-band receiver.
And if you have any bad Radio Shack tubes with the Lifetime label, you
better turn them in!
Yes, they still honor the warranty. Just be prepared to spend about an
hour in the store, as the poor guy has to call the head office, as no
doubt, he will be extra clueless. Every year they have to honor a few
dozen tube claims.
--
Will
7:27 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:23 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
wrote:
Yes, they still honor the warranty. Just be prepared to spend about an
hour in the store, as the poor guy has to call the head office, as no
doubt, he will be extra clueless. Every year they have to honor a few
dozen tube claims.
How do they honor the warranty? Cash back, new tube, something else?
Kyle
7:30 p.m.
New tube. The guy that supplies the tubes (a well known tube dealer)
likes it, because he can get rid of less-than-wanted NOS Radio Shack
tubes in his stock.
--
Will
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:23 PM, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com>
wrote:
Yes, they still honor the warranty. Just be prepared to spend about an
hour in the store, as the poor guy has to call the head office, as no
doubt, he will be extra clueless. Every year they have to honor a few
dozen tube claims.
How do they honor the warranty? Cash back, new tube, something else?
Kyle
7:35 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:30 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
wrote:
New tube. The guy that supplies the tubes (a well
known tube dealer)
likes it, because he can get rid of less-than-wanted NOS Radio Shack
tubes in his stock.
Cool. Now's the time to go through my (fairly small) collection. I think I
have a couple of Lifetime tubes in there. Just got a TV-7D/U recently too,
so that'll help for sure.
Kyle
7:38 p.m.
Just be careful with the label - they will not honor the Radio Shack
"long lasting" tubes!
--
Will
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:30 PM, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com>
wrote:
New tube. The guy that supplies the tubes (a well
known tube dealer)
likes it, because he can get rid of less-than-wanted NOS Radio Shack
tubes in his stock.
Cool. Now's the time to go through my (fairly small) collection. I think I
have a couple of Lifetime tubes in there. Just got a TV-7D/U recently too,
so that'll help for sure.
Kyle
10:40 p.m.
Frankly, it is probably not worth your time, unless you gave some
higher value tubes to replace, like 6L6GCs or sweep tubes. If you just
need little popcorn tubes, just talk to me.
--
Will
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:30 PM, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com>
wrote:
New tube. The guy that supplies the tubes (a well
known tube dealer)
likes it, because he can get rid of less-than-wanted NOS Radio Shack
tubes in his stock.
Cool. Now's the time to go through my (fairly small) collection. I think I
have a couple of Lifetime tubes in there. Just got a TV-7D/U recently too,
so that'll help for sure.
Kyle 
11:13 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Charles wrote:
yeah the 80?s kept their radio shack?.
90?s kept their radio shack?
anything after that ? is like "Cell Phone Accessory Express?
if you are lucky they might have A switch or A capacitor?. And MAYBE it MIGHT be the
value you actually need? but how many people re-cap their power supply with ONE cap?
how many people need just one cap?
thinking about this is making me angry?. I am glad radio shack is gone?
rest in hell!
I often have episodes of "dammit! that was my last xx uF cap!" and then I
go to Radio Shack to see if I can find it.
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
11:19 p.m.
On 02/05/2015 08:13 PM, Dave G. wrote:
I often have episodes of "dammit! that was my
last xx uF cap!" and then
I go to Radio Shack to see if I can find it.
Chuck's rule of thumb: If the component cost is less than $10, but
several of them. In other words, if you need a 10uF 15v electrolytic,
buy 10 of them.
My parts drawers overfloweth.
--Chuck
11:59 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 02/05/2015 08:13 PM, Dave G. wrote:
I often have episodes of "dammit! that was my last xx uF cap!" and then
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
I go to Radio Shack to see if I can find it.
Chuck's rule of thumb: If the component cost is less than $10, but
several of them. In other words, if you need a 10uF 15v electrolytic, buy
10 of them.
My parts drawers overfloweth.
--Chuck
+1 (or should that be +10?)
6 Feb
6 Feb
12:17 a.m.
On 2/5/2015 9:59 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist
at sydex.com> wrote:
+10
His wallet underfloweth.
Ben.
On 02/05/2015 08:13 PM, Dave G. wrote:
I often have episodes of "dammit! that was my last xx uF cap!" and then
I go to Radio Shack to see if I can find it.
Chuck's rule of thumb: If the component cost is less than $10, but
several of them. In other words, if you need a 10uF 15v electrolytic, buy
10 of them.
My parts drawers overfloweth.
--Chuck
+1 (or should that be +10?)
3:29 p.m.
Chuck's rule of thumb: If the component cost is less than $10, but
several of them. In other words, if you need a 10uF 15v electrolytic,
buy 10 of them.
My parts drawers overfloweth.
I do a similar thing, but based on usefulness rather than price. If I was
buying a small mains transformer it may well cost < \pounds 10.00
but I would probably only buy one or two. But for an expensive but
useful IC I might well buy at least 5.
For really common parts (LEDs, resistors, decoupling caps,
IC sockets, etc) I often go to the quantity to get the first discount
price (often 50 or 100). I use them enough..
My parts _rooms_ overfloweth :-)
-tony
3:55 p.m.
For really common parts (LEDs, resistors, decoupling
caps, IC
sockets, etc) I often go to the quantity to get the first discount
price (often 50 or 100). I use them enough..
A while back I bought a thousand each of some of (what I find to be)
the most useful components (I think the list was 2N3904 and 2N3906
transistors, 1N914 diodes, and 100R, 1K, 3K3, 10K, and 33K resistors).
As compared to low-quantity prices, they were ludicrously cheap; I
think even the transistors were under two cents each.
I've never regretted it.
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1:40 a.m.
I stopped at Rat Shack today.
The signs outside were the 50-70% off kind of stuff.
My motivation, was just to come inside, and 'cheer on' the lone guy behind the
counter.
Sure, they can suck at times, but as said in other posts, 'when I really need that
7805 voltage reg, they were there, and a mile away'
Radio Shack has always been a stop for the fast last minute parts. No complaints, I do
electronic design as a consulting business and there has been a fair share of on the
bench at 8PM and 'I need it now' for a show and tell tomorrow, and its not in the
lab stock.
I got the TRS-80 the day it came out. We knew the Z-80, but months of BASIC peek-poke and
learning the expansion bus, adding a disk got us way ahead of the other S-100 guys just
getting started.
Radio Shack, I will miss you, but I don't think you are done just yet. Your online
presence is what we have been asking for.
Dropping into the store for the LM317 IC, is probably gone.
Randy
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 04:13:16 +0000
From: dave at 661.org
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Radio Shack
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Charles wrote:
yeah the 80?s kept their radio shack?.
90?s kept their radio shack?
anything after that ? is like "Cell Phone Accessory Express?
if you are lucky they might have A switch or A capacitor?. And MAYBE it MIGHT be the
value you actually need? but how many people re-cap their power supply with ONE cap?
how many people need just one cap?
thinking about this is making me angry?. I am glad radio shack is gone?
rest in hell!
I often have episodes of "dammit! that was my last xx uF cap!" and then I
go to Radio Shack to see if I can find it.
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? 
2:30 a.m.
Apparently I need to go on a spend spree at the local shack, clean them out
of relays and project boxes and arduinos
On Feb 6, 2015 12:40 AM, "Randy Dawson" <rdawson16 at hotmail.com> wrote:
I stopped at Rat Shack today.
The signs outside were the 50-70% off kind of stuff.
My motivation, was just to come inside, and 'cheer on' the lone guy behind
the counter.
Sure, they can suck at times, but as said in other posts, 'when I really
need that 7805 voltage reg, they were there, and a mile away'
Radio Shack has always been a stop for the fast last minute parts. No
complaints, I do electronic design as a consulting business and there has
been a fair share of on the bench at 8PM and 'I need it now' for a show
and tell tomorrow, and its not in the lab stock.
I got the TRS-80 the day it came out. We knew the Z-80, but months of
BASIC peek-poke and learning the expansion bus, adding a disk got us way
ahead of the other S-100 guys just getting started.
Radio Shack, I will miss you, but I don't think you are done just yet.
Your online presence is what we have been asking for.
Dropping into the store for the LM317 IC, is probably gone.
Randy
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 04:13:16 +0000
From: dave at 661.org
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Radio Shack
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Charles wrote:
> yeah the 80?s kept their radio shack?.
>
> 90?s kept their radio shack?
>
> anything after that ? is like "Cell Phone Accessory Express?
> if you are lucky they might have A switch or A capacitor?. And MAYBE
it
MIGHT be the value you actually need? but how many people re-cap their
power supply with ONE cap?
>
> how many people need just one cap?
>
> thinking about this is making me angry?. I am glad radio shack is
gone?
rest in
hell!
I often have episodes of "dammit! that was my last xx uF cap!" and then I
go to Radio Shack to see if I can find it.
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? 
5 Feb
5 Feb
5:35 p.m.
Use http://on.wsj.com/1IaZQhY
Marc
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Evan Koblentz
<evan at snarc.net> wrote:
So ..... Radio Shack is (more or less) finally
dead.
There are still plenty of RS stores open for business. (Although I read
this morning that they're not getting new shipments, which makes them
essentially clearance stores.) Apparently the company is legally allowed
to
close a maximum of 200 stores per year. Or
something like that.
Horn-tooting: the Wall Street Journal interviewed me about RS back at
World Maker Faire last fall. They published the story online today and
it'll be in print tomorrow.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/strategic-confusion-put-
radioshack-at-the-mercy-of-lenders-1423164004
Scroll aaaaaaaaaaaall the way down to the bottom. (LOL, yeah, I'm
important!)
Behind a paywall, y'all....
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
10:39 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Ian S. King wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Evan Koblentz
<evan at snarc.net> wrote:
http://www.jongales.com/blog/2014/02/13/how-to-get-around-the-wsj-paywall/
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
So ..... Radio Shack is (more or less) finally
dead.
There are still plenty of RS stores open for business. (Although I read
this morning that they're not getting new shipments, which makes them
essentially clearance stores.) Apparently the company is legally allowed to
close a maximum of 200 stores per year. Or something like that.
Horn-tooting: the Wall Street Journal interviewed me about RS back at
World Maker Faire last fall. They published the story online today and
it'll be in print tomorrow.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/strategic-confusion-put-
radioshack-at-the-mercy-of-lenders-1423164004
Scroll aaaaaaaaaaaall the way down to the bottom. (LOL, yeah, I'm
important!)
Behind a paywall, y'all....
10:52 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015, Dave G. wrote:
http://www.jongales.com/blog/2014/02/13/how-to-get-around-the-wsj-paywall/
Sorry. This one works better:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/strategic-confusion-put-
radioshack-at-the-mercy-of-lenders-1423164004
Scroll aaaaaaaaaaaall the way down to the bottom. (LOL, yeah, I'm
important!)
Behind a paywall, y'all....
11:10 p.m.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/strategic-confusion-put-
radioshack-at-the-mercy-of-lenders-1423164004
Scroll aaaaaaaaaaaall the way down to the bottom. (LOL, yeah, I'm
important!)
Behind a paywall, y'all....
5:31 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Evan Koblentz wrote:
So ..... Radio Shack is (more or less) finally dead.
There are still plenty of RS stores open for business. (Although I read
this morning that they're not getting new shipments, which makes them
essentially clearance stores.) Apparently the company is legally allowed
to close a maximum of 200 stores per year. Or something like that.
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