[sdiy] Re: Bottom Ten ICs (resellers)

[The Old Crow]

  I will definitely second this.  In fact, the local RatShak changed their 
interior sometime in the last 2 months and now it looks nothing at all 
like what it used to, even in it's lame-duck days.

  What I want back is the Radio Shack I remember in 1975.  Project kits,
lots of parts, their own brand-names (Archer, Realistic, Micronta) for
electronics, and some actually decent sound system gear.  I think RatShak
went directly to hell they day there were no longer "A Tandy Company."  I
loved to look through their catalogs back then, with all the "new for '75,
new for '76", etc. tagged items.

  Now the place seems like an inferior sort of Circuit City (and THAT is a 
low blow!) mated to a Cellular One shopping mall booth.

Crow
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Scott Stites wrote:

> Radio Shack - oooooh, they really toast my nuggets.  Used to be you they
> had a fairly decent selection of components, they had Forrest Mims
> books, and they were *everywhere* (in the States, at least).  Now
> they're a limp version of all they used to be.  No - scratch that -
> they're nothing they used to be.