My local electronics store, which still sells packets of components, informs me that NTE has gone
out of business. They are the last company which sold to these stores as far as I know, so now my
local store has had to resort to buying bulk from places like digikey and then packaging the
components themselves.
I should note that my local store's primary business at this point is installing AV systems into
peoples homes and repairing old stereo equipment, which means they are likely the largest consumer
of their own stock, but when I need a resistor, transistor, connector, etc, this is my goto place. I
have been buying from them for about 56 years.
--tom
RIP NTE
