Had to look it up. From Wikipedia. I visited retail locations in SoCal before there was an IT biz.
"Established in the 1920s, Lafayette Radio Electronics (LRE) became a thriving mail-order catalog business; the electronic components it sold were useful to amateur radio operators and electronic hobbyists in areas where such components were unavailable in local retail outlets. Lafayette's main competitors were Radio Shack, Allied Radio, Heathkit, and "mom and pop" (independent) radio dealers throughout the United States. Early Lafayette Radio stores were located in Jamaica, N.Y. and Manhattan in the mid-1950s. The electronics kits were produced in the Jamaica facility. "Lafayette advertised heavily in major U.S. consumer electronics magazines of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly Audio, High Fidelity, Popular Electronics, Popular Mechanics, and Stereo Review. The company offered a free 400-page catalog filled with descriptions of vast quantities of electronic gear, including microphones, speakers, tape recorders, and other components." . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Hitefield Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 7:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Check out Megaprocessor I remember them! And you could get your components via "Lafayette Electronics"! Bill Hitefield Dino-Software Corporation 800.480.DINO 423.878.5660 www.dino-software.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 9:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Check out Megaprocessor On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 07:03:22 -0500, John McKown wrote: >Do we have a target as to when Amazon will have it in stock? Heathkit? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
