Ah Radioshack

[Meat Plow]

Digitaized catalogs dating back to 1940. Brings back some memories.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

 

[alchazz]

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:04:22 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:

Digitaized catalogs dating back to 1940. Brings back some memories.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

We didn't have a Radio Shack in our town in the '50s. But we did have a
Lafayette store. That's were I got all my goodies. I even have some of
them now.

Al

 

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:41:13 GMT, alchazz <no.spam@wanted.com> wrote:

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:04:22 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:

Digitaized catalogs dating back to 1940. Brings back some memories.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

We didn't have a Radio Shack in our town in the '50s. But we did have a
Lafayette store. That's were I got all my goodies. I even have some of
them now.

Al

Lafayette - that brings back memories: I was the bench tech (radio,
TV, CB) and TV service call guy on weekends at the Lafayette store in
Memphis when I was in college.

John

 

[AZ Nomad]

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:10:07 -0400, news@jecarter.us <news@jecarter.us> wrote:

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:41:13 GMT, alchazz <no.spam@wanted.com> wrote:

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:04:22 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:

Digitaized catalogs dating back to 1940. Brings back some memories.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

We didn't have a Radio Shack in our town in the '50s. But we did have a
Lafayette store. That's were I got all my goodies. I even have some of
them now.

Al

Lafayette - that brings back memories: I was the bench tech (radio,
TV, CB) and TV service call guy on weekends at the Lafayette store in
Memphis when I was in college.

"Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business"
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/even_ceo_cant_figure_out_how

 

On Aug 1, 9:10 am, n...@jecarter.us wrote:

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:41:13 GMT, alchazz <no.s...@wanted.com> wrote:
snip>> Lafayette - that brings back memories: I was the bench tech

(radio,

TV, CB) and TV service call guy on weekends at the Lafayette store
in
Memphis when I was in college.

John

Don't forget Olson Electronics.

I was looking at the 1956 Radio Shack catalog. You could actually
build or repair a radio from the items listed. Fancy that. Every time
I (rarely) visit a Shack, I wonder why I wasted the time - again -
though a few weeks back they were the only place I could find a UHF /
VHF splitter to use a a combiner between 2 TV antennas.

G˛

 

[Meat Plow]

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:41:13 GMT, alchazz <no.spam@wanted.com>wrote:

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:04:22 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:

Digitaized catalogs dating back to 1940. Brings back some memories.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

We didn't have a Radio Shack in our town in the '50s. But we did have a
Lafayette store. That's were I got all my goodies. I even have some of
them now.

Al

We had both here but the Shack store was closer to ride my bicycle to.

 

[JR North]

Indeed. I miss the Realistic line. They had some good stuff. Still
shaking the rafters with a pair of Mach II speakers, and driving the
car speakers with a 40W EQ/booster.
JR

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:04:22 -0400, Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net>
wrote:

Digitaized catalogs dating back to 1940. Brings back some memories.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

 

[Meat Plow]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:23:58 -0700, JR North
<junkjasonrnorth@bigfoot.com>wrote:

Indeed. I miss the Realistic line. They had some good stuff. Still
shaking the rafters with a pair of Mach II speakers, and driving the
car speakers with a 40W EQ/booster.
JR

I own a pair of the Mach One speakers. Couldn't believe the sound when
I first heard them at a buddy's house back when they first hit the
market. I blew the 15 out of one and replaced it with a generic that
was not so loosely suspended and it changed the bass response
dramatically at lower levels. So I ended up replacing the other 15
with the same type and both were balanced. Adjusting the EQ gain at
around 40 hz made up the difference.

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:04:22 -0400, Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net
wrote:

Digitaized catalogs dating back to 1940. Brings back some memories.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

 

[AZ Nomad]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:23:58 -0700, JR North <junkjasonrnorth@bigfoot.com> wrote:

Indeed. I miss the Realistic line. They had some good stuff. Still
shaking the rafters with a pair of Mach II speakers, and driving the
car speakers with a 40W EQ/booster.

I hope you're joking.

You're the perfect bose customer, but can't afford it yet.
Take 10 dollars worth of drivers, put it in a box that rings like a
bass drum at 60hz, and you're happier than a pig in shit. Slap on a
$1900 price tag and you're in nirvana.

 

[William Sommerwerck]

Indeed. I miss the Realistic line. They had some good stuff. Still
shaking the rafters with a pair of Mach II speakers, and driving the
car speakers with a 40W EQ/booster.

I hope you're joking.

You're the perfect bose customer, but can't afford it yet.
Take 10 dollars worth of drivers, put it in a box that rings like a
bass drum at 60hz, and you're happier than a pig in shit.
Slap on a $1900 price tag and you're in nirvana.

I never made a systematic study of Radio Shack speakers. But I heard a few
modestly priced that were quite good.

 

[AZ Nomad]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:20:02 -0700, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

Indeed. I miss the Realistic line. They had some good stuff. Still
shaking the rafters with a pair of Mach II speakers, and driving the
car speakers with a 40W EQ/booster.

I hope you're joking.

You're the perfect bose customer, but can't afford it yet.
Take 10 dollars worth of drivers, put it in a box that rings like a
bass drum at 60hz, and you're happier than a pig in shit.
Slap on a $1900 price tag and you're in nirvana.

I never made a systematic study of Radio Shack speakers. But I heard a few
modestly priced that were quite good.

I haven't. The large driver speakers are boomy as hell and almost as
resonent as bose and the smaller driver speakers can barely handle
higher volume levels than speakers on a tv set.

 

[William Sommerwerck]

I never made a systematic study of Radio Shack speakers.
But I heard a few modestly priced that were quite good.

I haven't. The large driver speakers are boomy as hell and almost as
resonent as bose and the smaller driver speakers can barely handle
higher volume levels than speakers on a TV set.

I'm talking 20 years ago.

 

[AZ Nomad]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:13:20 -0700, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

I never made a systematic study of Radio Shack speakers.
But I heard a few modestly priced that were quite good.

I haven't. The large driver speakers are boomy as hell and almost as
resonent as bose and the smaller driver speakers can barely handle
higher volume levels than speakers on a TV set.

I'm talking 20 years ago.

So am I. They're basically 1950's design bass reflex speakers. They
were barely passable as speakers in the 70's and an absolute joke by the 80's.

I don't think they sell speakers any more.

 

[David Nebenzahl]

On 8/1/2009 9:42 PM stratus46@yahoo.com spake thus:

On Aug 1, 9:10 am, n...@jecarter.us wrote:

snip>> Lafayette - that brings back memories: I was the bench tech
(radio, TV, CB) and TV service call guy on weekends at the
Lafayette store in Memphis when I was in college.

Don't forget Olson Electronics.

And don't forget Allied Electronics (later bought by Tandy/Radio Shack).


--
Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism

 

[Dave Plowman (News)]

In article <slrnh7egj3.mgm.aznomad.3@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net>,
AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:13:20 -0700, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:
I never made a systematic study of Radio Shack speakers.
But I heard a few modestly priced that were quite good.

I haven't. The large driver speakers are boomy as hell and almost as
resonent as bose and the smaller driver speakers can barely handle
higher volume levels than speakers on a TV set.

I'm talking 20 years ago.

So am I. They're basically 1950's design bass reflex speakers. They
were barely passable as speakers in the 70's and an absolute joke by the
80's.

I don't think they sell speakers any more.

I remember being asked to repair one of a Tandy (Realistic) pair of
bookshelf speakers. Looked quite good on the outside. Bass/midrange was a
very ordinary 'replacement' type paper cone driver and cabinet had no
acoustic treatment at all. No connector either - just a flying lead
exiting from an unsealed hole in the back.

--
*A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking *

Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

 

[Chicken Little]

Meat Plow wrote:

Digitaized catalogs dating back to 1940. Brings back some memories.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

Very interesting. Thanks for the link.