[ILUG] Hardware Vendor

[Gareth Eason]

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Christian van den Bosch wrote:
| Gareth Eason wrote:
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|>     RS == European version of Radio Shack (AIUI, I could be wrong.)
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| - and you are!
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| RS started as Radio Spares in Corby, supplying the electronics trade,
| and grew from there. Not cheap, but good.

	Thanks for that - it's something that has come up before but noone's
ever answered it for me and I've never been troubled enough to actually
do some serious digging regarding the company's history :-)

	I did always wonder how a separate company could get away with having
such a striking similarity (IMHO) to Radio Shack, be in the same
business (selling electronic components) and get away with it. I guess
it's geographic separation implying that the trademarks are US only for
Radio Shack and European / UK / whatever for RS. Aaaaaanyway :-)

	Thanks - I've now learned two new things today :-)

	Best regards,
	-->Gar

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