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Title: Shopping for Christmas presents?
Post by: Clive on December 02, 2017, 17:46

An ideal catalogue full of wonderful items for the Tech Savvy to buy.   :thumb:

http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http://www.sfgate.com/life/christmas/article/Take-a-look-back-at-a-RadioShack-catalog-from-1984-5932587.php&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Title: Re: Shopping for Christmas presents?
Post by: Simon on December 02, 2017, 18:56

 :thumbs:

Title: Re: Shopping for Christmas presents?
Post by: daveeb on December 02, 2017, 19:15

Brill, I had some radioshack (Tandy) stereo headphones, it was like having a small wardrobe on each ear  ;D

Title: Re: Shopping for Christmas presents?
Post by: Clive on December 02, 2017, 20:20

That was the deluxe version Dave.   ;D  I used to send off for components to build crystal and transistor radios.  Mrs Clive soon put a stop to all that nonsense!   :facepalm:

Title: Re: Shopping for Christmas presents?
Post by: daveeb on December 02, 2017, 20:59

Quote from: Clive on December 02, 2017, 20:20

That was the deluxe version Dave.   ;D  I used to send off for components to build crystal and transistor radios.  Mrs Clive soon put a stop to all that nonsense!   :facepalm:

 ;D  I made a metal detector from components, it was rubbish.

I was impressed with the 12 MB hard drive for $3000, think what you could do with that  :thumb:

Title: Re: Shopping for Christmas presents?
Post by: Clive on December 02, 2017, 21:04

 :omg: I doubt that you could store a single document on that these days.   :laugh: