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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2008 10:32:02 GMT -5
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Post by Night Ranger on Dec 12, 2008 17:45:12 GMT -5
I discovered that web page last week. Very very nice. I spent many many hours looking through those 1970s and early 1980s Radio Shack catalogs back when I was young. |
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Post by hillbilly1987 on Dec 12, 2008 18:03:52 GMT -5
sweet
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2008 20:03:39 GMT -5
The stores are horrible now. I didn't realize how much they had in the catalog.
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Post by Junior on Dec 12, 2008 20:58:41 GMT -5
My first base station, desk mic, ground plane, meters, 102" whip, etc... came from those stores. I had to walk 3-4 miles each way, but I got there.  |
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Post by Sandbagger on Dec 12, 2008 23:44:56 GMT -5
I found that site about a week or so back. I meant to post it here, just forgot. Glad you did. Anyway, looking back to the 1940's vintage catalogs, it's easy to see why they were called "Radio Shack". Shame they're a shell of their former self. But that's the way technology evolves..... |
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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Dec 14, 2008 14:19:58 GMT -5
Yeah, back in the day Radio Shack was geared for radio with anything that you might have needed. Now you're lucky to get a needed switch or capacitor. They are geared for high tech yuppie stuff now and seem to have left the radio part out. Maybe they should just give it up and bulldoze the remaining stores, ha, ha, ha. They've already closed down two of their stores around here that I know of.
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Post by OT-007 on Dec 27, 2008 10:55:04 GMT -5
WOW!!! That was kool to see what the old radio's looked like when I was kid.
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Post by MonkeyMan on Dec 16, 2013 20:12:16 GMT -5
Holy ancient thread Batman! I was going to post the RS catalogs today, but I used the search function first and found someone had beaten me to it, years ago. At any rate I didn't get much done at work this afternoon. ;D Love looking at the old rigs, stereos, radios, toys, games, kits, etc. Brings back so many memories.  |
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Post by Sandbagger on Dec 16, 2013 21:36:47 GMT -5
Holy ancient thread Batman! I was going to post the RS catalogs today, but I used the search function first and found someone had beaten me to it, years ago. At any rate I didn't get much done at work this afternoon. ;D Love looking at the old rigs, stereos, radios, toys, games, kits, etc. Brings back so many memories. Radioshackcatalogs.com is a great site. I use it to refresh my memory on a lot of items they once sold (back when the "Radio" was a major part of the "Shack"). I wish someone would do the same thing for Lafayette....... |
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Post by Night Ranger on Dec 16, 2013 22:46:17 GMT -5
Holy ancient thread Batman! I was going to post the RS catalogs today, but I used the search function first and found someone had beaten me to it, years ago. At any rate I didn't get much done at work this afternoon. ;D Love looking at the old rigs, stereos, radios, toys, games, kits, etc. Brings back so many memories. Radioshackcatalogs.com is a great site. I use it to refresh my memory on a lot of items they once sold (back when the "Radio" was a major part of the "Shack"). I wish someone would do the same thing for Lafayette....... I'd like to buy some of those discontinued items especially at those 1970s prices (like tubes). Night Ranger |
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Post by 2600 on Dec 17, 2013 1:01:37 GMT -5
Just jump into your time machine and dial up 1968. Tubes were pretty cheap then. The 6MJ6 tubes I put into basement-built linears in 1970 were 6 bucks if you bought a few at one time.
Just be sure of the dates printed on the money you take back to pay for it. Wouldn't want to get locked up for counterfeiting in 1968 and not be able to come back.
73
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