Posted on 11/29/2014 3:51:16 PM PST by SamAdams76
Ironic that they were THE electronics store for a couple of decades but that the ubiquity of the semiconductor in later years actually killed them off.
But they also earned their karmic fate with their cloying, incessant demand for personal information, going as far as a placard near the cash registers with the smiling company president attempting to justify the invasive practice. Of course they irresponsibly sold the data to anyone and everyone.
They also actually tried to turn mobile phones into add-a-sale items - even when buying a small item such as a $10 cable. Oh yes - let me add $300 to that tab! Idiots.
Best Buy is currently on the corporate-weenie track to the boneyard by annoying its dwindling foot traffic with in-store hard-sell DirecTV pitches etc.
They can moan about Amazon et al but in most cases retailers have been digging their own graves for years with or without the Internet.
Is that a bipolar or unijunction transistor.?
There is one near here that is combined with a tire store. A friend needed a memory stick and we went there a while back. They had a 500Mb for $129.00. We passed. Checked online and he ordered a 2 gb for about $10.
It's a very common NPN (bipolar) signal transistor, the successor to the 2N2222.
I used to use them for LED drivers, among other things.
All obsolete now. Who needs to drive an LED, when for a less than two hundred dollars I can get a plastic rectangle containing a few million of them?
Cool! Thanks for posting.
2N3904 is a good basic NPN transistor, the kind electrical engineering students use to build their freshman and maybe sophomore level projects. I’d probably go mail order in a pinch.
I DID NOT appreciate Radio Shack asking for personal information EVERY TIME I wanted to buy something.
That put them last on my list for buying things and with the Internet, that was the end of them for me.
I always figured they must be laundering drug money.
How they could continue to open store after store with no sales or customers seemed to defy the laws of economics.
I was just using my Heathkit tune-up meter on my 67 Chevy the other day.
CB radio!
Breaker 1-9......
I know! I don't know where I'm going to get RF Chokes an .010pf ceramic capacitors anymore since the RS by me closed up for good this week! They closed up for good before Thanksgiving even!
Man I remember cruising the interstates in Ohio back in the 55mph limit days, and trying desperately to outfox the “bears”
HA HA- I have it figured out!!-
They WILL not let you out of the store without getting
your ADDRESS and phone number!!
I refused- once the clerk called another employee then
the manager- of course I was laughing (buying Batteries)
told them I was homeless-
I Think they SELL the names and addresses!- they do not
really want to sell anything!- LOL
0.02 pf?
Twist two pieces of insulated wire together. Trim the twisted part to a length of about 1/4".
That looks like the ones I had, but it is throwing a whole lot more light than mine ever did.
Heathkit was the coolest. When Zenith bought them out it was the end of them.
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