Tcs Wrote:
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> The 80s wants its store back Wrote:
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> > > Back in the day the Shack was the place to
> get
> > > your stereo parts for car or home, I put some
> > > Frankensystems in my cars back then. So, a
> > couple
> > > times they caught fire, big deal? Back to tha
> > > Shack man! Texas instruments had a video game
> > > watch back in '82 that my folks got me at tha
> > > Shack...bad ass game watch back then man!
> Long
> > > live Tha Shack! At least it outlasted
> Penguin
> > > Feather...
> >
> >
> > Did you have a TRS 80? Or was we called them
> Trash
> > 80? We joke but back in the day those were the
> > bomb.
> >
> > Note the price in the ad from that time. Comes
> to
> > about $2,300 in today's dollars.
> >
> > >
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> Thanks, I just had a Deja Vu moment there. Hard to
> believe
> they were "the bomb" in those days but they were.
> I actually
> had to learn the catalog, hardware,
> software, and components to be able to sell them.
> Learning
> software was a real kick in the pants for me
> because we were
> implementing PC's on my full time Federal job and
> they were
> Hell bent for leather for us to learn the new
> systems and
> frequent upgrades so it was a time of "Software
> Overload"
> Here's the 1985 catalog. Accoustic modems for a
> telephone
> line hookup? You gotta be kidding me!
>
>
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs_extra/1
> 984_rsc-11/
Wow, looking through that catalog feels like going in a time machine. Clearly remember when all those items were considered cutting edge. Funny thing is I don't remember them all being that expensive. I mean, those prices are insane and you gotta figure it's about double that now. But I guess we weren't paying attention to that back then, just having fun with this new technology.