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I was going through some really old mail and came across someone calling 
Radio Shack virtually useless for parts for synth projects but raving about 
Tech America and how they had all the parts needed for his midi project.  I 
finally found the supposed Tech America site and when I did a search for some 
stuff the URL said Radio Shack.  Are they the same place?  Is Radio Shack a 
subset of Tech America as far as parts are concerned?  I don't know if I'm 
actually seeing Tech America's product lines at www.techam.com.  Thanks for 
any info about this.

-Elhardt

It's all Tandy I believe
LH

----- Original Message -----
From: <elhardt@...>
To: <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:56 AM
Subject: [motm] Tech America = Radio Shack ?


I was going through some really old mail and came across someone calling
Radio Shack virtually useless for parts for synth projects but raving about
Tech America and how they had all the parts needed for his midi project.  I
finally found the supposed Tech America site and when I did a search for
some
stuff the URL said Radio Shack.  Are they the same place?  Is Radio Shack a
subset of Tech America as far as parts are concerned?  I don't know if I'm
actually seeing Tech America's product lines at www.techam.com.  Thanks for
any info about this.

-Elhardt

Radio Shack did  a pilot of TechAmerica supoer stores. They opened
one in Denver and one in Atlanta and they were basically a large 
parts counter, books, home security/automation, DJ/Pro Audio, 
consumer electronics, computer parts, etc. They even kept stock on 
all those strange little Holtek chips. All around great geek store, 
if a little pricey. They occassionally had good sales on items, I 
got my oscope, heat gun, and Weller soldering station from them.
Seems to me they were trying to do a bland  version of Fry's, 
which if you're ever on the left coast you must visit.

They also had an online store.  I think  they've since renamed 
the stores "Radio Shack.com" but they left the online store 
TechAmerica. It's a shame they didn't expand to the rest of the 
US. Everyone deserves to live in a place where you can buy heat
shrink tubing, resisters and a Bob Pease book at 9:00 pm on a 
Saturday night.

Tomy