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I love LEDs. They're endlessly useful and fun.

Rat Shack used to have an assortment of 20 pieces. These were overruns, seconds, floor sweepings, etc. They all worked, but may not have been prime. You'd get the same assortment for a while, then it would change and you'd get a new assortment. Everything from odd shapes to T-1s and superbrights. $1.99 was cheap fun.

Before the chain when under for the first, second, third? I can't remember...they changed the way those were packed. You still got 20, but they were all Chinese primes and you'd get maybe 5 pieces of 4 kinds in the pack. None of those weird ones like the orange stubbies or those yellow-lens greens.

There doesn't seem to be that kind of crap out there anymore. I see assortments online, but they're usually 500 pieces of 3 kinds, some project that failed in the 90s and is being cleaned out of the warehouse.

Ah well.

I love LEDs. They're endlessly useful and fun. Rat Shack used to have an assortment of 20 pieces. These were overruns, seconds, floor sweepings, etc. They all worked, but may not have been prime. You'd get the same assortment for a while, then it would change and you'd get a new assortment. Everything from odd shapes to T-1s and superbrights. $1.99 was cheap fun. Before the chain when under for the first, second, third? I can't remember...they changed the way those were packed. You still got 20, but they were all Chinese primes and you'd get maybe 5 pieces of 4 kinds in the pack. None of those weird ones like the orange stubbies or those yellow-lens greens. There doesn't seem to be that kind of crap out there anymore. I see assortments online, but they're usually 500 pieces of 3 kinds, some project that failed in the 90s and is being cleaned out of the warehouse. Ah well.

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Someone close to me moved up over a 10 year run with The Shack and saw it to the end. He was with them right when they started being mostly about selling phones to when they thought they could be “hip” and they were rolling out copycat Apple stores.

They offered him the opportunity to open one of these new stores in California. He uprooted and went for it. Grand opening. Grand closing. Then all the regular stores started shutting down. Poor guy was depressed. He was moving up and up and then it just ended.

[–] • 3 pts

Even Radio Shack couldn't figure out why Radio Shack was in still in Business.