From: pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net   
      
   Cursitor Doom  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:15:34 +0000, Jeff Layman    
   > wrote:   
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   > IIRC it was called Tandy in the UK. When I lived in Germany, there was   
   > Conrad. They were very good stockists of components and certainly a   
   > lot better in that regard than Maplin in Britain. I wonder if Maplin   
   > are still going? I can't be bothered to look.and care still less.   
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   A Radio Shack in Albuquerque saved my bacon one time. I was on location and   
   needed a couple of largish caps to fix a VFD pickup problem, the Friday   
   before Memorial Day weekend.  It didn’t matter that they were Chinese crap   
   and way way overpriced—I was glad to get them.   
      
   Other than that, I hadn’t bought anything but the occasional battery or RCA   
   phono plug from them since I was a boy,  This despite their being two   
   blocks from my house for 25 years.   
      
   Cheers   
      
   Phil Hobbs   
   (who thought a 50kΩ/V multimeter was pretty cool, in about 1973)   
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