[MRCA] Radio Shack Stores closing

[Ray Fantini]

Same place I have been going for over ten years now, EBay.  Just about if not all the replacement parts that I have been getting come from EBay from exotic FETS for receivers to obscure integrated circuts for working on obsolete computers. Ordering parts on line far exceed anything that was available at the Shack epically in the last twenty years. In the seventies and eighties before everything that we have today you had Radio Shack, Lafayette (remember Rodney Village?) and wholesalers who sold Radio and TV parts (Harco) but none of them or all of them together don't begin to compare to what I can now do online and get within a day or two. 
I don't know how Radio Shack stayed in business so long being shopping on line is better selection and better price then the local people ever were.
I have not been in a Radio Shack in maybe four or five years and back then maybe went in looking for something and was surprised to see that all they had at that time was a lot of cell and car audio junk. Maybe back in the seventies they were the thing but their day has long past.

RF

-----Original Message-----
From: MRCA [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 8:26 PM
To: mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [MRCA] Radio Shack Stores closing

Most of the Shack stores are closing - -  where can I go now for an emergency 555 IC or a 47 bulb?

Sayounara

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