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   -=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Danny Bee <=-   
      
    DB> I remember one in Downtown Seattle about 20 years ago. Nothing special.   
    DB> just a small shop with various electronics for consumers. phones,   
    DB> speakers, cameras. random choice showing this is all and nothing. Lots   
    DB> of small shoppes around that were more focused.   
      
    KW>  I grew up in the late '70s and early '80s when Radio Shack was more   
    KW>  about electronics hobbies. I had a "Battery of the Month" club,   
    KW>  remember the excitement of being 11 or 12 and having a free   
    KW> carbon-zinc D cell or 9v battery to make things with.   :)   
      
   When I was operating as Megabyte Computer Works I scored a nice counter   
   top display for "regular" (C-Zn) batteries.. The deals were *very* good   
   so I made a sign adverting the prices and a notation of "TOY NOT INCLUDED"   
      
    KW> Over the years, the wall of electronic components gave way to cheap   
    KW> electronic crap, and later to cell phones and accessories before they   
    KW> closed.   
      
   Proving once again that you should dance with who brought you to the   
   party. Tandy's board couldn't make up their collective minds what they   
   wanted Rat Shaft to be - so it wasn't much of anything.   
      
      
   ... Money won't buy happiness. But it will buy bacon.   
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