Speaking of Tandy & TRS-80 (was: Re: What if,... early PCs

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Apr 10 10:53:08 1999

There was another one I haven't seen in a couple of decades, called Allied.
I once worked for a subsidiary of another Allied Electronics, so they must
have been gone by then. Laffayette was a place where I bought audio
components, e.g. speakers, crossover networks, passive radiators,
grille-cloth, etc. Of course that was in the '60's . . . When the periodic
table was easy to memorize, . . . let's see, there was air, earth . . .

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Robertson <steverob_at_hotoffice.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 9:01 AM
Subject: RE: Speaking of Tandy & TRS-80 (was: Re: What if,... early PCs


>On Saturday, April 10, 1999 10:16 AM, Charles P. Hobbs
>[SMTP:transit_at_primenet.com] wrote:
>>
>>
>> Does anyone remember a similar electronics store called "Lafayette"? They
>> were a big chain, probably not nearly as big as Tandy Radio Shack though;
>> I think they went under in 1980 or 1981
>
>
>I used to visit the Lafayette store in Ft. Lauderdale on a regular basis.
>IIRC this was in the Early 70's. The store primarily had audio gear, HAM
>equipment, and electronics components. Similar to the Radio Shacks of that
>time.
>
>As a matter of fact, I still have a Lafayette Stereo Amplifier at home. I
>used it for about 10 years then it quit working on one channel. Probably a
>bad output transister. I just never got around to fixing it...
>
>I don't recall ever seeing any digital stuff in the stores. Of course this
>was VERY early in the micro-processor development stage.
>
>Steve Robertson - <steverob_at_hotoffice.com>
>
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