meh.
Hi,
I think she owns some RadioShack memorabilia.
Tom.. 
Well the comment from Colin to the picture is:-
radio shack's proud new owner
That patch panel [shudder].
msssltd:
That patch panel [shudder].
Yep. 'Wall of Shame' material.
Henry_Best:
Yep. 'Wall of Shame' material.
Can someone Fritzing-ize that? 
Radioshack didn't sell stuff for makers. They lost their identity. They started selling cell pones and headphones and gadgets. When times got tough they forgot who they were, that's what happened. They also had too many stores. Like, 10 per city in my area.
I dont even think they sold Arduino's in stores around here. I went there once to get a npn logic level mosfet and the dude looked at me crosseyed. The margins on electronic compoents are obscene when you get into small quantities.
Microcenter is a adafruit type store for makers, it seems to be doing OK.
Radioshack didn't sell stuff for makers.
Well, they tried, briefly. By then, the only employees they had (and the only ones they knew how to hire) were cell phone salesmen 
does this mean we will be seeing some local/semi-local Adafruit retail stores?
We don't know what it means. It probably means that she managed to pick up a neat mounted plaque at the latest RS Bankruptcy auction (which made the press already for including various "company memorabilia" type things: 18 Fascinating Items From RadioShack's Corporate Memorabilia Auction)
I am excited by this! I was a big fan of Radioshack back in it's Tandy days, you could get all kinds of stuff there (and their catalog still lists a lot of it, even though you won't find any of it in the stores.) To celebrate, I put my 1974 Realistic speakers back into service:
Hi, Must dig my Realistic Pro31 scanner out.
It travelled many miles with me when I was a travelling tech, had a cradle for it and extension speaker.
Made a 12V to 8V adapter to charge the Nicads.
Listened to many bushfires and the constabulary.
Tom....
TomGeorge:
Hi, Must dig my Realistic Pro31 scanner out.
It travelled many miles with me when I was a travelling tech, had a cradle for it and extension speaker.
Made a 12V to 8V adapter to charge the Nicads.
Listened to many bushfires and the constabulary.Tom....
Right!?
I got nowhere as much use from mine as you did - it was my dad's, and he left it to me when he died. There weren't many analog channels left when I got it.
Hi,
We can still listen to the emergency services on good old VHF/UHF FM.
Yours has many more memory channels.
Tom...
TomGeorge:
Hi,
We can still listen to the emergency services on good old VHF/UHF FM.
Yours has many more memory channels.Tom...
Yes, and forest fire crews as well as airport transit vehicles. I haven't used it for a few years, cause the cheap plastic of the battery door clasp broke, and I never superglued it back together. I have the pieces though!
I never really learned how to fully use it. I was more thrilled that my dad wanted me to have one of his most prized possessions.
But I also have lots of other stuff from Radioshack:
I still use both the above items, the Micronta meter is mostly replaced with a Fluke 75, and the literature is a teaching resource.
I'm really hopeful that Limor and Co. can bring Radioshack back to it's former glory. As for the business model no longer being viable, I don't know. Fry's electronics seems to do a brisk business with former Radioshack customers. And Adafruit is very well respected. I'm all for it!
Nice collection, over here they were called Tandy.
I still have the Mini Engineer books. Those were great read back in the 80s. I am not sure if I have complete set or close but I do have many
We in Australia have Altronics and Jaycar that are nation wide.
Altronics have 6 stores nationally, and a network of Re-Sellers across the country, these re-sellers add their bit to the cost and don't have all stock, but can be very convenient in an emergency.
Jaycar have a similar arrangement, but they call their Re-Sellers Authorised Stockists.
Both appear to be doing well, both working in collaboration with local magazines, Silicon Chip and DIYODE.
Both have on-line shops.
One of the original electronics stores was Dick Smith, started 1968 mail order, grew nationally selling hobbyist and DIY components and kits. Evolved to computer and mobile phone as well.
Dick Smith the owner sold the company in 1982, buy 2008 they had dropped the DIY and components.
Basically they ended up in a market where they and just about every outlet in the shopping centre, strip mall or online was selling what they sold.
Stores were closed in 2016.
Dick Smith online is now owned by Kogan.
Many is the time you would say you were going to "Tricky Dicky's"
Tom.... 