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OT:RadioShack Message #1 Posted by Egan Ford on 11 May 2010, 3:03 p.m. The Lost Tribes of RadioShack: Tinkerers Search for New Spiritual Home

Re: OT:RadioShack Message #2 Posted by Garth Wilson on 11 May 2010, 3:47 p.m., in response to message #1 by Egan Ford I wish I had kept copies of the Radio Shack catalogs from my growing-up years; maybe not all of them, but at least every third year. Same goes for Lafayette, Burstein-Applebee, and maybe others. At least I kept a few Heathkit catalogs. When we moved to this city 35 years ago, there were a dozen electronics stores within ten miles, and most were not chain stores. In fact, several were surplus electronics stores. It was wonderful to me, a kid whose hobby was electronics and who was always making things. I was into amateur radio too. Today, almost no one remembers what a "radio shack" (with lower-case "r" and "s") is. Edited: 11 May 2010, 3:47 p.m.

Re: OT:RadioShack Message #3 Posted by Michael Meyer on 11 May 2010, 7:44 p.m., in response to message #2 by Garth Wilson My first computer was a Heathkit 386. I think the boards were already made, but you had to put together all of the case parts, switches, bays, etc. Then it became Heath-Zenith, if I remember correctly.

Re: OT:RadioShack Message #4 Posted by Steve Simpkin on 11 May 2010, 7:55 p.m., in response to message #2 by Garth Wilson Oh Man! The memories.... My Radio Shack catalog collection went back to 1974. Most of them were thrown out over the years but fortunately with the Internet, we don't have to miss them. The following site has almost every page of every Radio Shack catalog from 1939 to 2005! http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/ I also must have built almost every P-Box electronics kit they ever made. Here is a list of all of them as well http://my.core.com/~sparktron/pbox.html Growing up sucks......

Re: OT:RadioShack Message #5 Posted by Garth Wilson on 11 May 2010, 11:32 p.m., in response to message #4 by Steve Simpkin Quote: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/ I also must have built almost every P-Box electronics kit they ever made. Here is a list of all of them as well http://my.core.com/~sparktron/pbox.html Oh the memories! You brought back smiles!

Re: OT:RadioShack Message #6 Posted by DaveJ on 11 May 2010, 9:45 p.m., in response to message #2 by Garth Wilson Quote: I wish I had kept copies of the Radio Shack catalogs from my growing-up years; maybe not all of them, but at least every third year. I kept catalogs religiously when growing up! I had every Tandy (Radio Shack in Australia) yearly catalog, special catalogs (like computers), and every monthly flyer. In an act of madness I finally ditched them all about 7 years ago in a big cleanup :-( Dave.

Re: OT:RadioShack Message #7 Posted by tim m. on 11 May 2010, 10:06 p.m., in response to message #2 by Garth Wilson Ah yes, the catalogs. My formative years were spent collecting them along with the battery-of-the-month club cards. Today's Radio Shack is a faint shadow of what it once was, with all their electronic components relegated to four sets of drawers in the back of the store. -Tim

Re: OT:RadioShack Message #8 Posted by dbatiz on 13 May 2010, 7:45 a.m., in response to message #1 by Egan Ford http://www.elenco.com/ Fellow tinkerers, I ran across this when looking for accessories for a device called Snap Circuits. This company makes many of the kits that I remember looking at in Radio Shack when I was a kid. "Thumbing" through the PDFs brought back many memories, and claimed more than a dollar or two... Very Respectfully, David

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