[TriLUG] Radio Shack Catalogs

[Scott Chilcote via TriLUG]

On 03/10/2017 10:33 AM, Dwain Sims via TriLUG wrote:
> http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html
>
> I especially liked seeing the 4 function calculator from the 1973 catalog
> for 129.95! (That is $710 in 2017 dollars!) "A personal computer you will
> use for years."
>
> Dwain

Thanks Dwain, huge fun.  Page 37 of the 1939 catalog has a wireless
record player that transmitted music to your radio. 
Imagine being the first on your block to have one.  55 years before
Bluetooth!

One of my uncles tried to build a business selling "tele-tuners".  In
the early 1950s, the electron tube powered boxes played FM radio on your
TV set.  Maybe the first set-top box...   Too soon, alas.  I found out
about this when I asked what all those dusty wooden boxes were on the
back wall of my grandmother's garage.


   Scott C.

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Scott Chilcote
scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com
Cary, NC USA