"It's dead, Jim."

[Phil]

In the UK we gave up on Radio Shack (and the awful Maplin Electronics) years ago and started buying our traditional components from something called "The Interwebnet". They bring stuff to your door the day after you order it on a "computator". Still, never mind - in your western imperialist backwater, you will soon have deliveries by Amazon drone. This way, you can have 5 kg of junk delivered within minutes of ordering it, plus the fun of shooting down the drone and getting some cool SMD parts too.

Phil M1GWZ


On 10 Dec 2014, at 00:57, Richard O'Neill wrote:

> On 12/9/2014 4:29 PM, Michael O'Dell wrote:
>> “And it smells really bad, too.”
> 
> Radio Shack's sad decline has been long in coming. As with Allied, Burstein-Applebee, Lafayette and many others before it, Radio Shack's glory days have all but faded into 'what was'. As an analog experimenter I miss sizable parts with leads, fire bottles, high voltage, heavy transformers, big illuminated dials, aluminum Bud boxes, Air-Dux coils and ladder line antennas. Those were fun times that no amount of teeny tiny surface mount components or digital chips can hold a candle to, at least in my nostalgic memory.
> 
> Old Fart
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