Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: When I Found Out, I Was Shocked! Message-ID: <16684@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Feb 91 14:55:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 93, Message 1 of 10 In article <16667@accuvax.nwu.edu> prg@mgweed.uucp (Gunsul) writes: >[Moderator's Note: Indeed they are illegal for use on Citizens Band >... >years ago a fellow sold me a tuneable ten/eleven meter rig made by >Allied Radio. (Allied Radio was Radio Shack's name thirty years ago >for you young'uns reading this.) He threw in a bunch of stuff: the Wrong. Allied Radio was one of Radio Shack's competitors. Radio Shack had several competitors, all of whom were (in my opinion) better than Radio Shack. There was quite some choice in those days. Alas the business became non-profitable, probably because of the integrated circuit. Radio Shack bet on computers (with its TRS80 series) and survived. The others (or most of them are no more). Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940 [Moderator's Note: Yes and no. See the next couple of messages for more detail on this. PAT]