Hi, it's time for another Eevee blam RadioShack have gone Blast! Yes, it's finally happened today. They filed for bankruptcy and well, it's not surprising everyone saw it coming. Everyone knew it was gonna happen years ago. Even decades ago, a lot of people have been saying this is coming from and electronics hobbyists like me and no doubt you RadioShack have some really fun memories that I'd like to talk about.

a few adjust for a minute here because this is how I got my start. They're called a RadioShack in the U.s. of course, but they'll never call that here. It was always Tandy Tandy Electronics and this is how I got my start because the nearest electronics store to me when I was they started out in electronics when I was five or six years old.

The nearest store was just around the corner at the local shopping center local Tandy store couldn't go to the local Dick Smith store that was much further. Oh, I wasn't old enough to hop on a bus alone and go out there and do it, but I was allowed to go to local Tandy stores. that's pretty much all I had. That was my electronics world back then before the internet and the communications revolution.

all that yeah, their electronics, magazines and your local RadioShack store that was the LH rice hobbyist world back then and back then. I'm talking late 70s to early 80s for me anyway. so this is how I got my start. look this is the classic RadioShack 200 in one I started with the 50 in one kit.

then I got the hundred and fifty and one and then I got. well. the ultimate. the 200 in one kit.

And you've seen this on my blog before. That's the original manual for it. Fantastic and countless electronics hobbyists started their career on the Spring Terminal 51 201 Tandy RadioShack kits and back in the day, of course you wanted to buy your parts while you went to Teddy and you bought your one chip. look at this one.

it's a one. I Dug out of the archives that's even yellowed. All the plastic is yellow. I used to have these hanging.

this is a voice AVC P200 Voice recognition I see wonder if it still works? Actually fire it up on a breadboard and see. But you used to get the datasheet in the back and everything was fantastic. And you could famously, of course, buy your two resistors in a pack for a dollar or whatever. always at five resistors I think it was a couple of resistors or you bought your one fuse or you bought your one transistor or your one Sim for double-o chip.

It was really, you know I don't know how expensive it was back in the day of relative to now I can't really remember, but yeah, it wasn't the cheapest thing. We take everything for granted these days. But and of course, no doubt, countless people out there went to their local RadioShack store, picked up a copy of Forrest Mims Classic Engineer's Notebook. This is the 1980 edition directly out of my archives.

I've had dumb Forrest Mims on the Amp Hour radio show. Link that in down below if you haven't seen it. Fantastic episode. He talks about how he you know developed all these fantastic engineers mini notebooks and what else are we got.

Of course when I got my first multimeter when I was like five or six can't remember saved up my pocket money from doing our jobs and I went and got this beauty. it's the micron Table which was a Tandy RadioShack brand name a 20 to 201 you I think it's an 18 range analog multimeter. That was my first ever multimeter. I saved up all my pocket money went down at Andy This is the only one I could afford and well this did me for years.

It was fantastic! So I had my 50 in one kit I had my multimeter, had my parts I had my engineers notebook where I'd build stuff up I had a bought a little bread board from Chandi's everything else. that's how you started back in the day and of course Tandy did some innovative things. they pioneered home computers of course. yeah, the trash ad the model one which I've done a review on I have to link that down below the classic art Tandy 100 portable computer.

even though it wasn't actually designed, it was done by somebody else but anyway drove a lot of that so that. was really a pioneering company and computers and hobby electronics back in the day and now well think on Ski. Well, you know it was inevitable. really.

just like Dick Smith Electronics here in Australia everyone talks about I wasn't the same when you know Dickson is sold out and a lot of people don't realize he sold out he like 1982. Oh I think it was sold out to Woolworths Oh, it's a hell of a long time ago the Golden Age of Radio Shack and places like Dick Smith Electronics here in Australia Anyway I just thought I'd announce that and show off a few things RadioShack they're gone. It's a different era now. Totally different.

So yeah, don't be sad. just look back with fond memories of all of your visiting. RadioShack if you've got any good great stories about RadioShack if you worked there. Oh by the way, I forgot to mention it was actually my first job when I was still in high school.

I did work experience at the Art Tandy Repair Center or Into10 as it was called. that was like the incorporated company here in Australia into Ten Proprietary Limited and that's where they serviced all of the all of the computers and all the products back in the day and I worked in the computer service department working on that model threes mostly a Trs-80 model threes, aligning disk drives and doing repairs and stuff like that. That was my first job in high school. that was about 1987 86 something like that.

Anyway, that's pushing my memory, but that technically was my first job I Didn't get paid for it. it was work experience. but yeah, fun memories and of course having the Local I repaired the local Tandy RadioShack Headquarters like within a bike ride distance you know. rode everywhere on the bike.

back then it was push bike by the way, not motorbike push bike. I'd ride that down there like like a couple of times a week. they would have a place in the back where they would actually get all these all products and things like that that they were trying out or whatever bit computers, electronics or whatever and then they go are not suitable or whatever and they toss them in these junk bins in this back room. So you go into the back room and there's all this cool stuff which you know it wasn't in the catalogs or anything and that was just.

ah, that was just a goldmine back in the day. It was fantastic. So there you go. Yeah! I got a lot of fun memories of Tandy as it was called here in Australia Now they're gone ski.

Oh well, it's a brave new world. Catch you next time. Leave all your comments down below. Tell us all about your stories about Tandy Beauty.

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