[sdiy] Radfio Shack

[Ken Stone]

>On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Richard Wentk wrote:

>For over a decade, I subscribed to the Canadian version of Electronics
>Today International. When the magazine finally packed it in around 1992,
>I didn't grieve its passing. Instead, I wondered, "How did they manage
>to hang around so long?"

Electronics Australia, a long running "mainstay" out here re-invented
itself. It wnet glossy, and becaome another bloody consumer hi-fi review
magazine. Obviously a total failure in market research. They lasted about
two issues in the new format. (their previous change hadn't helped either).

The BIG problem is now you can buy a piece of consumer garbage for so little
money, a lot of reason for diy simply doesn't exist. For example, ther used
to be projects on making your own stereo hi-fi tape deck by significantly
updating a cheap consumer mechanism, the result, while not pretty, being as
good as the expensive items availabe at the time. Now days? who in their
right mind would try to build a DVD or CD player, especially considering DVD
players cost nealy less than the pertrol cost of diving out to buy one?

DIY electronics is now a haven for areas big commercial mobs wouldn't touch
due to low expected returns. Synth DIY is the almost perfect example.

Ken
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