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		LarsDu88 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tandy Corporation Apparently the Ycombinator equivalents of early microcomputer startups were leather hobbyist stores!

JKCalhoun 7 months ago [–]

> their first offerings were surplus military equipment

But then military surplus electronics came along and seem to have kick started a number of businesses, not just Radio Shack.

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