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Grazie wrote on 2/20/2006, 5:31 AM



Try buying a right-angled concentric 2.5mm or 2.1mm plug? - g
richard-courtney wrote on 2/20/2006, 5:55 AM
Sherman:

Heathkit? My first TV with a remote was their 2000.
Had onscreen channel display. Ultrasonic remote. Timeof day clock. Took a month to build it.

Great picture.

Good Ol' days.
TShaw wrote on 2/20/2006, 2:16 PM
I'm a HAM and for me Rat Shack died in the mid 80's. After the 90 I had a hard time finding anything of use from them. Now if I need
parts I drive from Madison to Milwaukee, 70 miles, but I can get the parts that I need, and not from Rat Shack, They should have stuck with their roots. That would have kept them in business.

Terry
Former user wrote on 2/20/2006, 3:50 PM
I managed a Radio Shack in a small college town in the mid '70's. It was an interesting time in the electronics business then.

The PC industry was just getting started. We started stocking some computer components while I there and I remember the engineering geeks from the local college swiping the data sheets from the 8080 CPU blister packs.

The Tandy computer centers were just getting organized. But, the real personal computer paradigm shift happened after my tenure there (I went to work a local NBC affiliate). Although in the ensuing years I did own a couple of TRSDOS computers -- a model III and a Model 4P and a Tandy 1000 (their first DOS based system.)
boomhower wrote on 2/20/2006, 8:26 PM
On top of their fiscal worries, they also have an image problem after their CEO stepped down today. He evidently used some creative writings skills when it came to submitting his resume.....oops.

http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_051160613.html