I picked up the last 2 rolls of silver-bearing solder at my local Radio Shack last weekend. The manager told me he would be ordering more, and not to worry about bankruptcy because a chain with 4000+ stores would not disappear overnight. As if. Of course there are alternative suppliers, but having that one favored product got me in the store during all the dark years of their decline.
RIP! My first memories of RS (probably 5), pushing the Orange button on a Model I and hearing the 8" drives growl and clank. Thought I had broken something and got really scared.<p>Although I suppose bankruptcy does not mean RIP, but they won't be the same. The again, they have never been like the 70's and early 80's. Maybe I'm just looking through colored glasses, but electronics were more fascinating then, especially the early days of personal computing.
This is a pretty sad day, but it's been a year since I set foot in a RadioShack. Then it was to buy a relay so I could solder up a 'hack' to allow me to watch DVD's on my Pioneer car DVD player without have to jiggle the E-brake.<p>At least a little bit of RadioShack will continue to live on in my car.
A little more info about the bankruptcy filing here: <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-files-for-bankruptcy-1423175389" rel="nofollow">http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-files-for-bankruptcy-...</a>