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Radio Shack Bites The Dust
- Thread starter Glenn Holland
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Yep, good example.
Wow. I really like the aesthetics of that clock. Seriously.
Surplus stuff aside my first ham transmitter was a Heathkit DX40 which served me well. That replaced several GI ARC5 transmitters.
Ron
Still have my old Heathkit IM 1212Surplus stuff aside my first ham transmitter was a Heathkit DX40 which served me well. That replaced several GI ARC5 transmitters.
Ron
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/...igital-tv-antenna-systems.145549/post-1259115
https://www.serpentwebsite.com/Heathkit_IM-1212_schematic.pdf
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Jon Chandler
- Joined Jun 12, 2008
- 1,598
We hid out in Merida MX for almost 6 months during Covid (went for a few weeks, stayed for 5 months). Merida has a Radio Shack, which was pretty much like the worthless Radio Shacks before they closed, but so many more.
Steren, which was everything and more than Radio Shack could have been in the best of times.
Electrónica 60 Norte, a store with many components and modules – counter service only, but vast stock.
Electrónica THIDO, another store with components and modules.
This puts Seattle to shame, with only ONE electronics store, mostly surplus and mostly expensive.
DickCappels
- Joined Aug 21, 2008
- 10,661
I thought Radio Schack was a pretty cool place until they decided they were in the cellphone business and let the component business flounder.
It seems in the US nobody fixes anything. Some of the best electrical/electronic stores were in SE Asia where everything was repaired or recycled.
$1200. No antenna or portable adaptor pack -- or batteries or AC charger. Then only $50/mo. In 1986.
Plus, you can see the entire phone number that you are about to dial. And, you can store thirty numbers!
Yep. Some things have changed.
And we were all amazed by it.
The provisioning process took over an hour for each customer (including multiple phone calls to the cellular provider) -- a process that could only be performed by the store manager, and the contract was 4 pages of small print in triplicate.
Oh, I believe it!
And just think of the things today that we are all amazed by and how people will look at their quaint primitiveness a few decades from now (assuming society doesn't completely collapse by then -- I'm not placing bets either way).
Cool! I only had fun selling CB radios when I worked at RS while in HS.
Pre or post TRS-80?
72,73 time frame.
Summer of 1977 (first TRS-80) I was already an E-4 in the Navy, building my own diy machines with the 8080 and later switched to Z80 diy machines.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sec-rev-ponzi-scheme-tai-lopez-alex-mehr/
Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 Imports and other brands accused of running $112 million Ponzi scheme
REV acquired RadioShack in 2020, three years after the nearly century-old electronics chain filed for its second bankruptcy. RadioShack first filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2015. In 2023, Unicomer Group acquired RadioShack, and in 2024, relaunched it as an e-commerce platform. RadioShack's current owners are not named in the lawsuit.
Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 Imports and other brands accused of running $112 million Ponzi scheme
REV acquired RadioShack in 2020, three years after the nearly century-old electronics chain filed for its second bankruptcy. RadioShack first filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2015. In 2023, Unicomer Group acquired RadioShack, and in 2024, relaunched it as an e-commerce platform. RadioShack's current owners are not named in the lawsuit.
Jon Chandler
- Joined Jun 12, 2008
- 1,598
Interesting. Looking at Radio Shack's current website, there are a number of things missing from their product categories – most notably a total absence of parts and components.
