[Coco] Did everyone see the announcement today?

[Dave Philipsen]

Well, you’ll have to admit that adafruit’s mission is very similar to the radio shack of days past when you could buy kits and build cool stuff.  It’s just more technologically advanced now. I can’t remember how many of those red perf-box kits I bought as a young lad.  And then there were the 10-in-1, 50-in-1, etc. kits.  I had one of those too. I built  little low power AM transmitter in my basement with an enameled copper wire hanging out the window going up the side of the house.  And I had a Webcor portable cassette deck with AC bias that I used to play music and act like a DJ.

Dave Philipsen

> On Oct 7, 2017, at 9:06 PM, Frank Pittel <fpittel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I can’t see them buying anything more than the name!
> 
>> On Oct 7, 2017, at 9:00 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe it was a fire sale...
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>>> On Oct 7, 2017, at 7:14 PM, Rich Carreiro <rlcarr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'll believe it when I see it.
>>> 
>>> Last I looked there's nothing about this at all on the Adafruit website.
>>> 
>>> Maybe they have some deal to license the name for a while.
>>> 
>>> I'll be shocked if they actually bought the corpse.  As corpselike as it is
>>> it's gotta be worth at least a few tens of millions.  Adafruit has that
>>> kind of scratch?
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 7:57 PM, S Klammer <sklammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Isn't this still just conjecture?
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 7, 2017 7:49 PM, "chris ahrendt" <chrisahrendt at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Addafruit now owns all of Radio-Shack Corp.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Pretty cool eh?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Chris
>>>>> 
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