{"id":5701,"date":"2012-10-22T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2023-04-09T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:18:07","slug":"radio-shack-catalog-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/radio-shack-catalog-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Shack catalog archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a trip down memory lane.\u00a0 Someone has taken the time to preserve and document Radio Shack, its founding, history, and all of the catalogs printed from 1939 to 2005. The website archive is <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radioshackcatalogs.com\/catalog_directory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Shack Catalogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember reading these very catalogs cover to cover when they came out in the mid-1970s.\u00a0 At that time, this stuff looked expensive, and in relative dollar terms compared to today, it was.\u00a0 We had one of these computers in our &#8220;Math Lab&#8221; in 9th grade:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/079.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Shack catalog, TRS-80\" class=\"wp-image-5715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/079.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/079-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/079-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/079-464x600.jpg 464w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/079-400x516.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Radio Shack catalog, TRS-80<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, when I found one of these computers stashed away in the corner of a transmitter site, I had a flashback of Mr. B scowling as yet another student made a mistake plotting x\/y coordinates on the backboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TRS-80.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TRS-80.jpg\" alt=\"Tandy TRS-80 Model 4D computer\" class=\"wp-image-2229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TRS-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TRS-80-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TRS-80-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TRS-80-400x318.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tandy TRS-80 Model 4D computer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahhh, memories.&nbsp; Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a trip down memory lane.\u00a0 Someone has taken the time to preserve and document Radio Shack, its founding, history, and all of the catalogs printed from 1939 to 2005. The website archive is Radio Shack Catalogs. I remember reading these very catalogs cover to cover when they came out in the mid-1970s.\u00a0 At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/radio-shack-catalog-archive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radio Shack catalog archive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[180,302],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-computer","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11493,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}