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In reply to the discussion: Great Memories: What Happened to RadioShack? The Store That Taught America How to Build Things [View all]NNadir
(37,926 posts)32. A very happy memory is buying a breadboard, some LEDs and other components for my son when he was in elementary school.
I was really pushing science on him - my bad - and so he decided to become an artist.
The funny thing is that now, as a man, some of his art is kinetic and involves circuitry and electronics.
When he became a man he taught himself all this stuff. I actually don't know where he gets components. I should ask when I see him. I know he's built a few computers from components he got somewhere from a store somewhere in the Philly area.
Maybe some spark remains from his old man's efforts in his boyhood involving Radio Shack remains.
Those days, of course, we're before the disintegration of the world now underway.
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Great Memories: What Happened to RadioShack? The Store That Taught America How to Build Things [View all]
LiberalArkie
Yesterday
OP
Lafayette Electronics closed its doors even earlier -- corp. mismanagement.
eppur_se_muova
Yesterday
#2
Back in those days, you could go in there with a thing you needed to replace,
House of Roberts
Yesterday
#3
My husband still misses that store. He could get components for his various projects.
Ritabert
Yesterday
#5
Find your nearest Repair Cafe, a non-profit which can work on anything from broken zippers
Wonder Why
22 hrs ago
#18
I know because I am one of the volunteers. However, I'm on indefinite hiatus until I have my leg back.
Wonder Why
14 hrs ago
#36
Laz used to manage a Radio Shack in a little rural strip mall near a military base.
haele
22 hrs ago
#17
We purchased our first computer, the TRS 80 from Radio Shackwhen our son was 7 or 8 yrs old.
scarletlib
22 hrs ago
#19
The video is AI-generated and narrated, on a channel that's almost completely AI, adding about one AI video
highplainsdem
11 hrs ago
#41
If I had a time machine I would go back to the 70's and buy up all the vari-loop coils I could get my hands on
yaesu
19 hrs ago
#29
I miss stores like RadioShack, and this makes me feel a certain way. Mostly nostalgia.
Oneironaut
19 hrs ago
#30
A very happy memory is buying a breadboard, some LEDs and other components for my son when he was in elementary school.
NNadir
19 hrs ago
#32
It's the tech bro capitalist philosophy -- if people are buying that crap, they will sell it.
hunter
8 hrs ago
#44
Anyone remember when they gave a 10% discount to shareholders and lots of people, including yours truly,
Wonder Why
14 hrs ago
#37