[sdiy] Radio Shack was Re: Bottom Ten ICs (resellers)

[John L Marshall]

There were a number of innovative loudspeakers sold by Radio Shack:

Wasn't the Minimus 7 the first of really small speakers with a massive 
magnet and okay sound?

Wasn't Radio Shack the excluisve integrator of Linaeum monopole and dipole 
tweeters into speaker systems?

I believe that the Radio Shack speaker division was sold to RCA.


Take care,
John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Old Crow" <oldcrow at oldcrows.net>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Re: Bottom Ten ICs (resellers)


>
>  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
> /**/
>
>
> 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.
>