"Hello Computer! I need the formula for transparent aluminum."
Posted on 03/04/2014 5:08:26 PM PST by kingattax
"Hello Computer! I need the formula for transparent aluminum."
One equivalent now is raspberry pi and RS needs to have raspberries and raspberry accessories (displays, etc) filling the long wall of every store. Sell the SW at $5 for a disk, but get people in to buy the hardware. There are always new things that will come out to hook up and RS needs to sell every single one of them.
First electronic component I ever called a distributor to get a price on was a transistor from Radio Shack.
I was in fifth grade. I was on an "I've got to build something even if I don't know how" campaign. I called up Radio Shack. Asked them how much for a transistor. The guy said "what kind, NPN or PNP?" I answered "NPN" because that's what he said first. He gave me a price for a package of three, or ten, can't remember.
Later I learned the difference. Learned to remember which was which by thinking NPN = arrow Not PoiNting at the base.
I didn't actually build anything from transistors until I got a flip-flop to work when I was sixteen or so. Didn't get the transistors from Radio Shack though.
Yes, bought an old style analog dial AM/FM pocket radio there a couple of weeks ago. But had to hunt for it past shelves and walls of smart phones and accessories. In one store in ABQ they don’t even have a regular cashier - sales people will help you out then direct you to a person who moves around with a scanner for your credit card that then prints our a receipt (or email you one). Weird!
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The AM radio for your Huffy with the banana seat. Just what I needed when I was 12 so I could listen to Rush Limbaugh, if he was around back then.
Now, where did I put my Alice Cooper records?
I still remember the RS clerk trying to sell me some other model, not listening as to why I wanted that particular model. Of course, he pointed out that the other pair had a volume control ...
“They need to go back to their roots.”
I agree, and there are lots of ways they could be creative and carve out a unique niche.
“Now, where did I put my Alice Cooper records?”
In the quiet room.
But Shack does not have the stuff that Best Buy has in it. We have both near by and the BB is five times as large as the Shack store.
I found this website: http://www.dustygizmos.com/arcpages/arctape.htm
Can’t vouch for whether or not it is ‘computer safe’, but it seems OK.
Their roots were as a source for hobbyists who built their own electronic devices.
Things are mostly miniaturized with a few dedicated chips now.
I don’t think that they can.
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I went to a local RS recently to find a standard fuse. They didn't have it and didn't know where to get it. Today's RS is more like a electonics gadget booth in a mall.
Haven’t really seen how Radio Shack has stayed in business since the advent of online shopping for almost anything. I have set foot in a RS exactly once in the last 5 years or so, and that was just to see if they still sold cassette tape repair kits. They don’t - found ‘em online though.
“When you can to go an outfit like Allied Electronic”
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I never was a fan of Radio Shack. In my early ham days, in the late 50s, I bought from the Allied catalog, or a local electronic parts distributor. Allied was later bought by Tandy/Radio Shack.
One of the great things about being a “nerd” in Fort Worth was going to one of the Radio Shack warehouses that were open to the public and buying their surplus items dirt cheap.
They had occasional tent sales at the one on Terminal Road, but the stuff was always available inside the store there, which was at the front of and attached to the warehouse.
They always had computer stuff, antennas and radios, stereos, phones, intercoms and more. Sadly, they closed that store about two years ago.
Yep, that's it exactly. I'm going to try to fashion a new set out of foam. Nothing wrong with the 'phones themselves, not even after the way I've treated them over the years.
They have become a cookie-cutter store for stuff you can get easily online or any other store
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