Editing is a bit clumsy with arrow keys but still easily done.Ģ.
A full-sized keyboard that records what’s typed in 8 files totaling about 200 typed pages. You can find them now on eBay or Amazon for about $25-30.ġ. They were originally sold to schools for about $200 to teach typing and elementary writing.
Those who’d like something like the classic Radio Shack Model 100 for writing might want to look into getting an Alphasmart Neo or Neo2 (for writers, there’s no difference). Out of the gate I knew the parts were expensive, except on sale or clearance items, though every o often they had exotic items not so readily available at the local stores. I may be wrong, it seems a bit off that someone I knew was working there in 1972.īut since there were the other stores, Radio Shack was pretty much for emergencies, when I couldn’t get to the good parts stores. There was at least one the next year, not very far away. I can’t remember if Radio Shack was in Canada that year, but if it was, it was a very recent thing, and no local stores. It also happened to be near a subway stop, it wasn’t long before I was going by myself, and then a bit later, I’d walk, which is probably why I walk most places to this day. I no longer remember why I picked that, but it turned out to be a good choice, there was actually a cluster of electronic stores in the area, though I only realized with time. No, in March of 1971 I looked in the Yellow Pages, and pretty much at random picked Etco Electronics in downtown Montreal. Posted in Misc Hacks, News Tagged auction, radio shack, realistic, tandy, trs-80 Post navigation Meanwhile if you are interested in the events that led to this moment, you can read our coverage of the retail chain’s demise. If you are interested in any of the Radio Shack lots, you have until the 3rd of July to snap up your personal piece of retail electronic history. There are even a few retail technology dead ends to be found, such as a box of :CueCat barcode readers that they evidently couldn’t give away back in the dotcom boom. You will find most of the computers, including a significant number of TRS-80s and accessories, tube-based radios and equipment from the 1950s, as well as cardboard boxes stuffed with more recent Realistic-branded items. There are catalogues galore from much of the company’s history, items from many of its promotions over the years including its ventures into sporting sponsorship, and numerous examples of Radio Shack products.
Some of it is the paraphernalia of a corporate head-office, such as framed artwork, corporate logos, or strangely, portraits of, but the bulk of the collection will be of more interest. There is such a range if items for sale that if you are like us you will probably find yourself browsing the listings for quite a while. As part of the company’s archives they had retained a huge trove of Radio Shack products and memorabilia, and these have been put up for sale in an online auction. The glory days of Radio Shack may be long gone, but its remaining parts are still capable of turning up a few surprises. Gone are all but a few independently owned stores, and the brand survives as an online electronics retailer. Sadly for fans of retail electronic component shopping, the company behind the Radio Shack stores faltered in the face of its new online competition over later years of the last decade, finally reaching bankruptcy in 2015. These modestly sized stores in your local mall or shopping centre carried a unique mix of consumer electronics, CB radio, computers, and electronic components, and particularly in the days before the World Wide Web were one of very few places in which an experimenter could buy such parts over the counter. The chances are that if you are from North America or substantial parts of the English-speaking world, you bought them from a store that was part of the Radio Shack empire. Where did you buy the parts for your first electronic project? That’s a question likely to prompt a misty-eyed orgy of reminiscences from many Hackaday readers, if ever we have heard one.
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