Same company, same tat, different name...
Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,,
Tue 15 Dec 2020, 11:37,
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Was Maplin more popular than Tandy over there?
PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 15 Dec 2020, 13:00,
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So, Maplin started out as a decent retailer of electronic components, kits and related equipmentand their annually-published catalogues were pretty handy technical references, as well as having cool Sci-Fi -themed covers. However, in more recent years, they moved to mostly selling electronic crap and overpriced blister-packed items, basically taking over from where Tandy left off when they shut up shop in the early 2000s.
My first job after leaving school in the early '90s was in a local electronic components and equipment shop that I'd frequented for several years previously, being a computer and electronics geek from an early age. By that point, Tandy was a joke and Maplin was already starting to go down the toilet.
One of the things that made me very happy when I visited Reykjavik a couple of years ago was finding an electronics shop that was almost exactly the same as the one I'd worked at a couple of decades earlier.
(My first job after leaving school in the early '90s was in a local electronic components and equipment shop that I'd frequented for several years previously, being a computer and electronics geek from an early age. By that point, Tandy was a joke and Maplin was already starting to go down the toilet.
One of the things that made me very happy when I visited Reykjavik a couple of years ago was finding an electronics shop that was almost exactly the same as the one I'd worked at a couple of decades earlier.
Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,,
Tue 15 Dec 2020, 13:19,
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