From: cd6699@notformail.com   
      
   On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:56:09 +0000, Jeff Layman    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 30/11/2025 18:28, 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.   
   >   
   >Still around, but nowadays found in some Jessops and London Camera   
   >Exchange shops, as well as online.   
   >   
   >More years ago than I care to remember, my main source of components was   
   >Tiny's (in Dalston, North London). As it happens, it's where Alan Sugar   
   >used to get his electronic stuff according to his autobiography.   
   >Occasionally, I used the surplus shops in Tottenham Court Road and Lisle   
   >Street.   
      
   There used to be some fantastic electronic/radio shops in TCR way back   
   50-60 years ago.   
      
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