![]() They had in stock most of what was in the catalog. They would tell you which wires went where and then their was an explanation of how the circuit worked. And there was a book with 150 projects in it. There were spring terminals and wires you would push into the springs to make connections. On the panel were mounted lamps, dials, transistors, and other electronic components. It was a wooden box with a cardboard panel inside. When I was around 10 my grandparents bought me an electronic projects kit. And there were pages and pages of electronic parts: tubes, transistors, capacitors, resisters and kits for making your own printed circuit boards. There was an X10 system for controlling your lights from a control box next to your bed. There were headphones and outdoor speakers. There were shortwave radios and pages of CB radios and accessories. There were transistor radios and component hi-fi systems including turntables and a reel-to-reel tape recorders. It was full of things I wished I could buy. ![]() When I got a little I would spend hours poring over the Radio Shack catalog. If the tester said a tube was weak, dad would go over to a counter and ask the man there for a new one. Sometimes there would be a line for the tester. Dad would take the back cover off, pull out some vacuum tubes, and take them in to Radio Shack to use the tab tester. ![]() We went others times whenever our TV stopped working. I went with my dad when he bought new speaker cables. My first memory of Radio Shack is from around 1975 when I was six. The Radio Shack stores played a big role in my childhood. ![]()
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