[sdiy] Radio Shack catalogs

[Harry Bissell]

y'all remember my coining of the phrase "FCP" when
musing about semiconductor manufacturers abandoning
chips that don't go in wireless devices ???

(someone even beiefly had the phrase on Wikipedia... :^)

H^) harry (FCP, and the horses they rode in on...)

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net>
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Sent: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:47:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Radio Shack catalogs

"David G. Dixon" <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> Radio Shack along with their branded products like "Realistic" were sold
>> in the UK as well from the 70's until around 2000 I think, by a chain
>> of stores
>> called "Tandy" . Most major towns had a branch. I used to buy all
>> sorts of
>> stuff from them.
>
>Yes, Radio Shack/Tandy "used to be" really cool.  It's just one more thing
>in a very long list (including Heathkit) that the "digital revolution"
>destroyed forever (along with synthesizers -- flames actively invited...)

It's not digital that is bad.  Digital is just an engineering technique.  There are
many wonderful digital things in the world, so "digital" should not be cursed as the
bane of Radioshack.  

However, for nearly every cellphone purchase, a base form of microcephalic consumerism
is rewarded.  This is what destroyed what we remember as "Radioshack".

-- ScottG
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