Here Are 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs to Browse Online

[DrQ]

Here Are 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs to Browse Online for Free​

For more than seven decades, RadioShack published a paper catalog. It's pages are a glorious testament to the electronics hobbyist.

Here Are 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs to Browse Online for Free

For more than seven decades, RadioShack published a paper catalog. It's pages are a glorious testament to the electronics hobbyist.

gizmodo.com

From 1939 to 2011, RadioShack published a catalog that let users browse its various electronic bits from the comfort of their home. Some of them are hundreds of pages long and provide a window into America’s past. What was Raytheon before it was a company that built missiles? Page 8 of the very first RadioShack catalog shows you a friendly Raytheon that sold replacement vacuum tubes for radios.​

 

[PigsDad]

Very cool! I just took a look at one of their "Computer Catalog" issues from 1979 about the TRS-80 (or "Trash-80", as we used to call them back in the day ). It was amazing how technical those catalogs were!

Kurt

 

[pedro47]

I missed Radio catalogs and their stores; must be my generation thing.LOL

 

[Brett]

I remember Radio Shack - another retail chain obliterated by online shopping
(and people didn't need to build their own radios and computers)

 

[dlpearson]

Young Sheldon Cooper would be thrilled!