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Re: Radio shack basic electronics book
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:19:45 GMT
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I live in Los Angeles and we have two Radio Shack Stores within walking
distance. They are busy all the time.
--
Bob Fay
rfay@we.mediaone.net
The Shop
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/7900/
"Jonathan Perret" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
news:033f01bf3606$1b8a10c0$a4c8c6d4@phantom.cybercable.fr...
> > Radio Shack Canada has an online store • ( http://www.radioshack.ca/rstore/ ).
> > I found some basic electronic books you may want to order. I'm not sure • if
> > they're set up to deliver to France, but I don't see why not, if you paid
> > the shipping. (They even have a French language site).
>
>
> http://www.radioshack.ca:80/rstore/search/Search.asp?&ct=rs%5Fsrc&so=rank%5 • B
>
> d%5D&qu=%28%40meta%5Fcopy%5Ftext+%28book%29+OR+%40meta%5Fname+%28book%29%29 • &
> > mh=10&sh=10&ae=1&RN=11&qu_init=book
> >
> > I thought they were everywhere. You can't throw a rock without hitting a
> > Radio Shack in North America. Maybe a good franchise opportunity in • France
> > ;-)
> >
> > Seriously, I think they're part of Tandy Corp., so they may go under a
> > different name in Europe.
>
> radioshack.ca Canada doesn't ship outside Canada.
> I couldn't find the book in the catalog at radioshack.com - I must be dumb
> but I couldn't find how to make a search in the catalog so I had to
> look at the list of the 161 available books and perhaps I missed the book.
> Anyway, I don't think they ship outside US - I have tried to find out but
> they won't tell you about their shipping conditions unless you give your
> card number, apparently. But in the "commercial sales" section they say
> they don't ship outside US.
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> I remember seeing a Tandy store once. I think that one does not exist
> anymore. In any case, it was a consumer electronics only shop, it had
> no parts.
>
> Really, shops that cater to the electronics hobbyist are rather rare
> around here (and I live in Paris !). And in general they are small shops.
> We have no equivalent of shops that sell consumer electronics and parts
> at the same time. To find parts you have to be "in the know".
>
> Radio Shack says (on their site) that 94% of Americans live within 5
> minutes of a Radio Shack store. That's scary. I wonder how they can
> justify carrying electronics parts in so many stores. Surely not 94%
> of Americans ever need to buy a LED or a resistor (let alone a
> microcontroller) ?
>
> Cheers,
> --Jonathan
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>
>
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