Speaking of Tandy & TRS-80 (was: Re: What if,... early PCs - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Apr 1999

There was another one I haven't seen in a couple of decades, called Allied.
I once worked for a subsidiary of another Allied Electronics, so they must
have been gone by then.  Laffayette was a place where I bought audio
components, e.g. speakers, crossover networks, passive radiators,
grille-cloth, etc.  Of course that was in the '60's . . . When the periodic
table was easy to memorize, . . .  let's see, there was air, earth . . .

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Robertson &lt;steverob(a)hotoffice.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 9:01 AM
Subject: RE: Speaking of Tandy & TRS-80 (was: Re: What if,... early PCs

...
 On Saturday, April 10, 1999 10:16 AM, Charles P. Hobbs
[SMTP:transit@primenet.com] wrote:

 Does anyone remember a similar electronics store called "Lafayette"? They
 were a big chain, probably not nearly as big as Tandy Radio Shack though;
 I think they went under in 1980 or 1981 

I used to visit the Lafayette store in Ft. Lauderdale on a regular basis.
IIRC this was in the Early 70's. The store primarily had audio gear, HAM
equipment, and electronics components. Similar to the Radio Shacks of that
time.

As a matter of fact, I still have a Lafayette Stereo Amplifier at home. I
used it for about 10 years then it quit working on one channel. Probably a
bad output transister. I just never got around to fixing it...

I don't recall ever seeing any digital stuff in the stores. Of course this
was VERY early in the micro-processor development stage.

Steve Robertson - &lt;steverob(a)hotoffice.com&gt;