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Offline Two Skies

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Radio Shack may file for bankrupty protection next month
« on: January 15, 2015, 09:54:30 PM »
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/radioshack-could-file-for-bankruptcy-protection-as-soon-as-next-month/

Radio Shack has been a source for a number of electronic/electrical knick knacks I've bought over the years, so I personally will be sad to see them go.  I even owned/played around with a TRS-80 back in the day, doing my own memory upgrade to said TRS-80 using memory chips I bought off of Radio Shack's shelves... upgrading from 4K to 16K was a really big deal back then.  These days, 16K is laughably tiny...

In fact, just last week I needed a 300 ohm antenna cable to dual terminal end thingie (building a DIY HDTV antenna).  Home Depot (at least the one in my area) didn't have one, so I went to the local Radio Shack. 
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Re: Radio Shack may file for bankrupty protection next month
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2015, 04:00:59 AM »
Them and Sears and JC Penny...
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Re: Radio Shack may file for bankrupty protection next month
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2015, 04:43:29 AM »
I'll be sad to see Radio Shack gone too.

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