I have fond memories of buying my first transistors, capacitors, resistors, and soldering gun from RadioShack and soldering my first devices (a TI-85 interface to computer serial port). RadioShack seemed to lose their way when they started selling phone subscriptions. Adafruit is what RadioShack is supposed to be. I'm glad they have reappropriated the name. I guess all the real estate is gone...but it would have been cool to have those RadioShack stores as ada fruit stores/learning centers.
I went to my local RadioShack's liquidation...bought a ton of RadioShack branded things at discount to have for nostalgia purposes. Was also pleasantly surprised to see a section of the DIY kits you would find at adafruit including arduinos and RPi's.
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I have fond memories of buying my first transistors, capacitors, resistors, and soldering gun from RadioShack and soldering my first devices (a TI-85 interface to computer serial port). RadioShack seemed to lose their way when they started selling phone subscriptions. Adafruit is what RadioShack is supposed to be. I'm glad they have reappropriated the name. I guess all the real estate is gone...but it would have been cool to have those RadioShack stores as ada fruit stores/learning centers.
I went to my local RadioShack's liquidation...bought a ton of RadioShack branded things at discount to have for nostalgia purposes. Was also pleasantly surprised to see a section of the DIY kits you would find at adafruit including arduinos and RPi's.
What else could they do? Even with the big markups, those resistors and transistors weren't profitable because they turned over so slowly.