Hit up your local Radio Shack for the fire sales! THe little bits & pieces are dirt cheap

[G+_Eddie Foy]

Hit up your local Radio Shack for the fire sales!  THe little bits & pieces are dirt cheap.

[G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ]

I can't do it... It would feel like looting the still-warm corpse of an old friend... And the last time I did that, it turned out that he was still alive... and really upset that I was wearing his pants.

[G+_Jeff Brand]

With their support of MAKE projects and Arduino kits I really had hope for them to resurrect themselves. The range of soldering-related supplies was pretty disappointing. They had one cheap pair of flush cutters. I went in willing to spend more for quality and couldn't.

 

I tried to give them business at full price and couldn't. Liquidation discounts won't help.

 

(OK that's not true - I may buy an Arduino just for kicks if the price is right.)

[G+_Eddie Foy]

They missed the mark at every turn.  (Kinda like Palm)  What they REALLY should have done is set up little kiosk stores inside others, like Walmart, Home Depot, Pizza Hut, etc.

 

On a side note, ever been in a hardware store in NYC?  Those are so densely packed, they can bend light waves.  The Kiosks could have done that.

 

Tandy kept them afloat for alloonngg time.

[G+_Jeff Brand]

Back in the early '90s shortly after getting my first PC, a 386SX from CompuAdd I had looked at RadioShack's Tandy offerings: 286, not fully PC compatible, and more expensive than the PC I already had.

 

I wrote them off for selling over-priced proprietary junk and haven't considered them for any consumer electronics purchases from then on.

[G+_Eddie Foy]

I still own my very first computer, a TRS-80 pocket 2K of RAM.  Pre-dates DOS.  Ran BASIC as the OS as many did in that era