Re: Sayonara, good people

[Crash Gordon® <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?
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> "Crash Gordon=AE" <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.
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> In those days there was basically 3 sources of parts in my area; =
Heathkit,
> Lafayette Radio and Radio Shaft.
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> AH...there's nothing like the smell of solder flux in the morning!
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> "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
> >
> >
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