[Robotgroup] What does the "better" radio shack look like?

[brooksdesign]

That was something I always wanted to do with a RobotGroup warehouse sort of thing ,group members have keys to the 24 hour shack .If you have enough people around all the time ,Iwould think it would pay for itself ,but then again highschool dropouts that solve expencive problems with a handfull of dimestore magnets are not very good for big bidness .
-brooks

-----Original Message-----
>From: Don Colbath <dcolbath at austin.rr.com>
>Sent: Dec 8, 2006 11:13 PM
>To: Austin Robotgroup Mailing List <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] What does the "better" radio shack look like?
>
>Finally getting around to emails from September.   For a long time I 
>have thought of setting up some sort of South Side Electronics store but 
>I'm not sure how well it would really work.
>I found a catalog a few years ago from Ora Electronics that could be the 
>ticket for setting up one of these.  They will sell you stuff mail order 
>but if you want they'll also sell you the whole rack of resistors ready 
>to be set up for retail.  Apparently they've gone belly up now.  Frys 
>seemed to be the place for a while but they refuse to restock parts.  
>Really what the shack should have done, in my opinion, would be to have 
>one store in a metro area that would still have parts.  They did 
>something like this way back where there was a small Allied Electronics 
>in the back of a store in San Antonio.    Most of the time the Robot 
>groupies from North Shore and the like have just said "order from Jameco 
>or that kind of catalog".
>
>Don
>Back to the Dark Lair
>
>David Nunez wrote:
>
>>Not to start off another long, curmudgeonly topic, but I've been  
>>rolling this idea in the back of my head and wanted to get some  
>>feedback.
>>
>>Do we have a source, here in central texas, that we can go to and  
>>reliably pick up "parts" w/o all the cell phone displays and  
>>upsells?  Something more, I dunno, "raw" than the current iteration  
>>of Fry's and Radio Shack?  Something as geeky as, but not as loud as,  
>>a lan gaming spot.
>>
>>I seem to remember at the retreat somebody mentioning a salvage/junk  
>>electronics store up in Dallas (was it vern?) and lamenting not  
>>having one here.
>>
>>What does the ideal geek retail spot look like?  What do they have  
>>for sale?  bins of resistors? bins of broken junk? homebrewed robot  
>>kits? robot art? gallery space?  meeting space?  community workshop,  
>>studio space, and classes on how to use tools?  Is it a place you  
>>come to hang out with other geeks, or is it a drive through store  
>>where you shovel in fuel rods and go back to your dark lair to  
>>continue building?
>>
>>What are we missing in Austin (or does such a beast exist and I  
>>haven't found it yet)?
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