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My first computer was a Heathkit 386. I think the boards were already made, but you had to put together all of the case parts, switches, bays, etc. Then it became Heath-Zenith, if I remember correctly.
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Oh Man! The memories.... My Radio Shack catalog collection went back to 1974. Most of them were thrown out over the years but fortunately with the Internet, we don't have to miss them. The following site has almost every page of every Radio Shack catalog from 1939 to 2005!
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
I also must have built almost every P-Box electronics kit they ever made. Here is a list of all of them as well
http://my.core.com/~sparktron/pbox.html
Growing up sucks......
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I wish I had kept copies of the Radio Shack catalogs from my growing-up years; maybe not all of them, but at least every third year.
I kept catalogs religiously when growing up!
I had every Tandy (Radio Shack in Australia) yearly catalog, special catalogs (like computers), and every monthly flyer.
In an act of madness I finally ditched them all about 7 years ago in a big cleanup :-(
Dave.
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Ah yes, the catalogs. My formative years were spent collecting them along with the battery-of-the-month club cards. Today's Radio Shack is a faint shadow of what it once was, with all their electronic components relegated to four sets of drawers in the back of the store.
-Tim
