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To: Jack Hydrazine

Radio Shack use to be a place for kids to get experiment kits and circuits and learn things about physics and electricity with real hands on experience. They were one of the first into personal computers too. They turned away from that unfortunately, but I guess they were just responding to market demand. I think kids have lost something when every consumer gadget can’t be made and is a disposable.


20 posted on 09/15/2014 8:34:10 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

>.Radio Shack use to be a place for kids to get experiment kits and circuits and learn things about physics and electricity with real hands on experience. They were one of the first into personal computers too.

I imagine the first PCs, Apples and such, used many RS parts.


56 posted on 09/15/2014 9:01:50 PM PDT by expat1000 ("If you're explaining, you're losing." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Vince Ferrer

dittos! Radio Shack was overpriced but was a last ditch place to buy certain electronic items. It was there when you needed them.

Now you have to buy on ebay and whatever and wait a week to get the item


103 posted on 09/15/2014 11:32:34 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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