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From: keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: vari-loopstick
Message-ID: <2440@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 19:58:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 10 19:58:11 1987
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <1725@vice.TEK.COM> georgep@vice.TEK.COM (George Pell) writes:
>Lafayette Radio was bought by Radio Shack in the '70s, was absorbed, 
>and soon disappeared altogether.
>

Uh, it was Allied that was purchased by Radio Shack (actually, Tandy).
As I recall Uncle Sam said "No, no, musn't do that" and made Tandy
divest itself of Allied. I think it was a practice run for the AT&T
job :-).

keith