https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-tandy-bought-radio-shack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-tandy-bought-radio-shack David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:27:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-tandy-bought-radio-shack/#comment-57596 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:27:27 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41129#comment-57596 I loved going to radio shack when I was a kid in the 80s but I was endlessly frustrated that they never seemed to have all the parts needed to build anything, even projects in their own books. By the mid 90s hobby electronics was on life support with iconic kit suppliers and surplus dealers dropping like flies. Then Radio Shack was far too slow to pivot to support the growing maker community when cheap easy to use microcontrollers like the AVR, PIC and the Arduino ecosystem showed up followed by the Raspberry Pi. They did eventually carry some Arduino stuff near the end but it was far too little and too late.

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