[TriLUG] Radio Shack: was Old Dog In Need of New Trick - Digital TV Recording

[Peter Neilson]

If you go south to Fayetteville you can try Brantley Electronics. They  
have a web page at http://brantleyelectronic.com/ that is woefully  
incomplete, saying "lorem ipsum" for most parts including "about us," but  
last time I went to their physical location at 935 Bragg Blvd,  
Fayetteville, they had what I needed. They seem to have a phone,  
910-672-8073.

Previously I have had good luck with Newark.

While in high school I was a regular customer of Radio Shack at 167  
Washington St in Boston, Mass., a location that no longer exists, being  
part of the Scollay Square and Cornhill area removed to become Boston's  
so-called Government Center.

More recently I have occasionally suggested to the management of RS that  
renaming their stores to "The Shack" suggested desperate stupidity, and  
that they should look to the needs of their loyal customer base. The key  
to any business is having a reason for people to deal with YOU rather than  
with someone else. I go to RS to find things I'd not have any hope of  
finding anywhere else, and occasionally it's because I have a bit of  
leftover nostalgia for the time long ago when RS employees knew a resistor  
 from a capacitor.

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:46:32 -0500, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com>  
wrote:

> Steve and all,
>
> Allied Electronics still has a presence in the Raleigh area. It is
> only a distributor office ( 801 Jones Franklin Rd #290, Raleigh, NC
> 27606 (919) 851-2131 ). I wonder if they would accept small orders via
> phone?
>
> You mentioned ALL Electronics. I didn't know they were still around.
>
> For many years I used Hosfelt Electronics ( http://www.hosfelt.com/ ).
> They are still around. Looks like their website has gone minimalist.
> No pictures of parts. ( at least in the area I looked this morning )
>
> When I first moved to Raleigh (1968), we had Southeastern, Womack,
> Radio Shack/ Allied, Lafayette Electronics, and an independent on
> Glenwood Avenue ( Capitol Electronics?? ). You needed to know of all
> those if you worked for an AM Broadcast station as I did. You were
> expected to repair any electronic device in use at the facility. By
> the time I left broadcasting, most am stations were shifting to return
> to manufacturer for most things other than transmitter. Or just
> purchase a replacement. This meant reducing technical staff.
>
> As far as project stuff goes, Radio Shack has component drawers in a
> metal cabinet ( Usually at the rear of the store ) plus they have
> Arduino boards and the add ons for it, I believe they have the basic
> stamp boards as well. I don't remember seeing Raspberry Pi in there --
> but who knows.
>
> For special parts, I rely on Digikey, Newark, and in desperation, Amazon.
>
> jcj KK4VUS
>