Re: Sayonara, good people

["Mel" <Respond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re: Radio Shackup..Remember how nasty the clerks would be when you wouldn't
give them the last four digits of your phone number. They'd ask my name and
I'd tell them, "Cash....Petty Cash". I'd give them the address of the place
I worked in Mexico and they couldn't deal with that.

Bob

"Crash Gordon®" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yah, I managed a few Radio Shafts in my day.
They had more freekin' ways to shaft store managers on commissions then you
could shake a stick at.


"mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> radio shaft? hahahahahahahahaha, never heard that one
> hope you wore gloves using that solder and of course you did have fume
> hoods
> then, didn't you?
>
> "Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'll never forget the first hands-on electronics class I took, it was in
> the
> stock room of Heathkit. I also took ham radio classes there and took my
> first ham license test at the same place.
>
> In those days there was basically 3 sources of parts in my area; Heathkit,
> Lafayette Radio and Radio Shaft.
>
> AH...there's nothing like the smell of solder flux in the morning!
>
>
> "John O" <johno@!noSPAM!heathkit.com> wrote in message
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> > > It's the same company.  Their educational division has been around for
> > > something like 30 years.  The consumer products division died,
> presumably
> > > due to competitive pressure from RatShak and such.
> >
> > Yep on the first part. The kits went away for lots of reasons, in no
> > particular order:
> >
> > component integration
> > Zenith Radio Corp (cash drain)
> > total lack of creative marketing (catalog or nothing!)
> > competition with new hobbies (computers)
> > a lack of patience in kit builders (let's splash some solder on here)
> > some crappy kits (HW-9, ID-5001, Hero 2000, etc)
> > Zenith Data Systems (gov't contracts trumped all else)
> > Groupe Bull (owned by the French gov't from 1990 to 1994...need I say
> more?)
> >
> > -John O
> >
> >
>
>