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Reply With Quotetoo bad you don't have a Fry's Electronics store near by. It's a Radio Shack on steroid. They have everything you could imagine. Their online store is www.outpost.com
It used to be you could buy most anything at a store. Then they changed policy, anything that started with a "9" was online only. Wasn't too bad, I could still get items I needed. Now Radio Shack's website doesn't list over half the items is used too. I was looking for a parts to hook up my graphic VFD, flat-ribbion cable, IDC connecter, 25DB connecter. None of these parts are listed.
Why? IMO it makes ratshack a useless store.
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Originally Posted by Tidder
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too bad you don't have a Fry's Electronics store near by. It's a Radio Shack on steroid. They have everything you could imagine. Their online store is www.outpost.com
Even Fry's is lacking that certain variety of electronic components that they used to carry.
Radio Shack wasn't making enough profit selling little diodes and caps, they have now moved to more of a "Best Buy" type retail store.
I guess "Shaq-cessories" was more marketable than "Shaq-diodes and Shaq-caps"
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yeah, their store are even scaled down on the stuff. Used to be 2-3 walls of caps, diodes. Now its down to one cabinet, with draws for each parts, and most of them are empty
These day no one really fabricate stuff, its easier and sometimes cheaper to buy it.
It's a shame really, I used to go there loads as a kid, and built/tried to build all sorts. But it seems an ever growing trend these days, at not just with shops, even the electronics mags have less and less, technical & hands on articles, it's all reviewing the lastest stuff.
I don't think it's just electronics, that's suffering, when was the last time you saw a Chemistry set, or an home optics set, even Lego is becoming less technical & more gimicy, and do they still make Mechano?
If you take technology away from the masses you'll end up with everyone doing tourisum & lesuire at Uni.
Still in 30 years time when there are no electronic engineers, I'll be driving around in a streched Mini and charging millions.
And you say people actually pay money for M$ Windows?
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well there's always gonna be electrical engineers. Check out india, theres no radio shack there yet they have a huge engineering mass.
a streched Mini, eh? kinda ironic, lol,
i know a store in toronto that sells all the little electronic parts, but for loads cheaper then ratshack. its about $0.10 for a red LED, etc. the only problem is that its about 40-50 minuites away, so its not worth it for $5 in parts.
the store is called supremetronic btw, and theyre on queen street.
www.supremetronic.com
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Radio Shack is a complete waste of time for electronics components. Always has been, always will be. Any town with more then 50,000 people will have a "real" (or a distributer for) electronics store. Yellow pages under "Electronic Components". London (a city of 331,000 people) has about 6 of them.
Otherwise, just order online from the tens of thousands of shops. I recommend Electronics Goldmine.
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