Fall Sale Days are here

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t fall for the multitester. It advertises 28 ranges, but only 7 of the ranges are available at launch. The rest are DLC planned for 2035, according to the Kickstarter, and Lord knows if we’ll ever see them.

  Really, though, I love Radio Shack. Literally have a t-shirt. If you have anything Radio Shack branded still in box, it sells like hotcakes.

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fuck, I miss Radio Shack. Since they’ve closed I have to order every electronics component online.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    MicroCenter is sort of like RadioShack if you have one near you

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    At least Mouser and Digikey still exist.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There are still a few locations left in the world, and I believe at this point they’re all privately owned “Radio Shack Authorized Reseller” locations. I know for a fact there’s one in Petersburg, West Virginia.

    www.radioshack.com/locations

    The rights to the Radio Shack name are owned by Unicomer Group now, and they’re the ones running the lurching husk that comprises the web site above. Their product selection seems to consist entirely of white-box Chinese radios, headphones, Bluetooth speakers, wireless charging pucks, and other sundry cheap electronics of that ilk, but all bearing the Radio Shack brand name. But they also still sell batteries, apparently.

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• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Bet that multimeter still works too.

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  • Beacon@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My dad has one that looks like that, and yup it still works

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I had one of the those Realistic radios (in yellow) 20 years after this was printed.

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not american so when my dad first took us to Disney world we tbought the US was so magical with all the stuff. He gave us each a portable color tv! I was such a “rich kid” with that fucking thing. Wonderful us tech

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can get most of that stuff on Amazon for 2025 prices. That simple antennae would be $88 today.

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• Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh man, I grew up with those intercoms on the top right.

  So weird to see them again.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fun fact: Tandy computers were in fact named because of Tandy leather.

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• Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t remember doing much at radio shack. I think I bought a variable resistor for a radio tuner, but that’s it

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