notbob wrote in
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On 2017-01-12, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

RS was a good place if you need a diode or resistor, but not for
equipment.

After they bombed on computers, they switched to phones and RC toys.
Cell phones, land line peripherals, RC helicopters, etc. They still
failed. Those "diodes and resitors" were not enough to sustain the
brick n' mortar crowd, specially after the industry switched to
surface-mount-technology (SMT).

We still have a single RS (privately owned) store between two towns.
They keep having a "sale".

nb


Digikey beat Radio Shack out on diodes and resistors. It was cheaper to
order 100 of them from Digikey and pay shipping than it was to get a
couple from Radio Shack.

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