Hi it's magazine Memories time I Love my magazine memories. looking at old catalogs, old magazines. this one absolute classic. the Tandy know that RadioShack rubbish known as RadioShack in the USA in Canada at 1979 to 1980 electronics catalog.

thank you very much Aunt Krauss from Liverpool in the UK Ottawa and all my viewers in the old art, it's even got it. Know that RadioShack rubbish over there either and he found this in old books and thought it would be hey awesome thing, check out well it is. Let's go through it anyway. this could be a long video buckle up.

Dorothy know I used to actually collect or not only all the Tandy catalogs, all the Dick Smith electronics and Jake I catalogs all these catalogs. they usually collect the Tandy flyers as well as in like I think they came out with these monthly like flyers like specials catalog though like you know, 10 20 pages long or something like that don't recall exactly and I think there's actually some scans of these available online. but anyway I collected those for like I don't know a decade or more and in a big move I decided to throw them all out. Oh goodness.

Anyway, let's see with the electronics from 1979 slash 1980 was like let's check it out. look at this. I mean it's all about audio back then we're still talking turntables. No, that's CD rubbish.

So ah, fantastic right off the bat and it's all in our UK pounds. Of course none of this dollar rubbish. This is new from 1980. Realistic.

Of course. one of the Tandy brands in fact. yeah, here it is RadioShack Realistic Science fair Archer Micron tow in a cell clarinet Optimus Archiquette concert I Never heard of Plug and Talk and don't really recall that one anyway. Um I did actually did work experience in year 10 at high school at the Tandy warehouse.

I actually and as repair center it was the main district like the main headquarters in Australia and I actually was working on repair of the old Tandy computers like the model threes and I think I think the model Flora come out anyway I think it was mostly like model 3 Computers back then the big business one will no doubt see some older vintage computer stuffing here. Anyway, look at this like fent its audio. We service what we sell fantastic and I still love just flicking through the catalogs that do it over and over again. So I knew everything that like new Tandy had it was just absolutely fantastic.

Anyway, look at this awesome stereo stuff. Please leave it in the comments. Once again, new for 1980. please leave in the comments if you had any of this keys see anything familiar or you still using it I mean all this audio I gave it still work.

No worries whatsoever. The best is a good system. A better system The best system I Love it. Yes I'd Like you know, package deals they combine them a moderate cost receiver Toby Dolby Noise reduction.

It's got a touch of class. Luxury high fire at affordable low price that is very low priced isn't it? Wow LW and medium-wave reception that's like that was a thing back then. Does anyone still have a cabinet? A floor standing cabinet based stereo system? Please leave it in the comments. This is brilliant for the audio connoisseur for those playing along at home.

Low price separates for true components. Stereo turntable with quartz lock so you won't get into that Wow or flutter rubbish. a precision belt drive oh it's just fantastic and a changer you used to be out. you used to whack the CD CDs you used to whack the records on the top and then it had change at the arm had come out.

the little like like pin thing in there would drop and it would drop a record down and you can actually play Malta It was a stacker. it was the original record stacker and a look at this for poor. oh no they are ports their horn tweeters for horn tweeters for mid-range Wow, that thing's just thumping. Anyone still using any of these Tandy speakers wonder where it does anyone know where they used to source their drivers from? Open Real decks were still a thing.

Does anyone still use Open Real? Fantastic! Our finest ever front low stereo cassette decks Three Heads Jewel capstans, Double door be Ah it's all happening. I Still have one of those sound level meters. the old realistic analog Me: The sound level meter still got it somewhere. Microphones, flashing disco lights.

Nothing's changed now. look at these old boxy headphones. These look like aviation headsets. That's hilarious.

I Don't think Tandy used to sell aviation headsets. That was the older Tricky Dick of course cuz he was a pilot. If you haven't watched my Tricky Dick video, please do where he talks about his round-the-world adventures in a helicopter. He was the first to circumnavigate the world in a helicopter.

Fantastic talk. Highly recommended. Phones were a big thing. are still that wrote rotary dial do we? what? touch-tone wasn't in in 1980? Oh I Thought it was intercom systems that are all the rage.

Another digital rubbish. All analog sound level meter again. field your own speakers, all the interconnects Archer Soldiering supplies for the professional hobbyist. Cordless rechargeable soldering iron.

High-quality soldering irons. Were they temperature variable? They were. yet. they've got the little temperature adjust that was my first solder and I'm not sure if it was a two Nd one probably would have been I don't recall and I think it was and it had yet.

the little temperature adjust trimmer down the bottom, the instantly gas instant heat gun I Love it! Nibbling tools they haven't changed over the years. Wow, it's a fancy looking thermometer. I Like that, it's almost a piece of furniture. Wow Antennas know that you found a digital rubbish an hour under the components Louise Archer capacitors I wonder who actually made the arts and capacitors? Does anyone know anyway? Trimmers and sliders and pots and look, these are our these are our power trainees so that's the Tandy catalog number.

but they are there you go. Tip 31 Audio power transistors, a double to double to S and all the rest of it power Fitz he had a few fence down here know that MOSFET Rubbish. No Germanium was still a thing Wow I didn't know you could buy an 8080 processor at the time from Tandy I don't think they ever had that here. A lot of this would have varied that Tandy in Australia didn't sell as much stuff as overseas Wow they didn't have as comprehensive range of this Philips TDA like 20 watt amplifier modules and octane synthesizers.

triple fires of course my two LED drivers steady grant Wow steady RAM chips and everything. Yeah and I think Tandy Australia ever sold those did they? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Jesus was only a kid at the time. A lucky dip grab bag of icy timers may include five five three five fifty five five five six, twenty to forty summer jewel. some are completely reset Aleppo In a wide supply range.

Fantastic. Ten optocouplers. they just working. whatever they could find it.

Well, wasn't the Shenzhen market back then didn't exist? Yep. I still got one of my original Archer breadboards somewhere I'm sure. Anyway, lots of that proto boards thing like stabilized power supply that six output voltages that's just terrific and etchant materials cuz yeah everyone, it's their own stuff. Back then that was a thing.

switches, connectors and then cases I would look aluminium cabinets, 19-inch racks, digital display cases, auto clock case. Look at that. Fantastic. well that modules look at that.

Wow, that's that's fast at time temperature clock module. Now this is something that we didn't have in. Australia Tandy slash RadioShack didn't sell kits. you had to go to Dick Smith or J car or someone like that to actually get well Jake I wasn't around then.

but yeah, you had to go to Dick Smith to get your kids I didn't know Tandy actually made kids This is interesting. Does anyone know where they came from? Did they come from the ice? Um, they came from UK Ella trikes, magazines or do tend he actually make their own kids. Please leave it in the comments cuz 10 I'm sure Tandy never sold kits in the 80s when I was a kid I'm oh yeah I I'm pretty sure they didn't Anyway, there was my first multimeter I still have it the 22 201 18 range 20 K ohms per volt. Absolutely fantastic.

And you know a lusted after the you know in the big ones this is the dual FET one. I Do actually have one of those now, but they didn't have one of those when I was a kid and the original fit vomit new for 1980. Terrific! Anyway, that was my very first morning meter. saved up all my pocket man for that when I was a kid and that was my big purchase and I couldn't even dream of owning a digital multimeter let alone an oscilloscope.

Back in the day we were dirt poor and you know I had to work hard to save up for Mike I remember how much I paid maybe was 20 bucks at the time I collected a lot of aluminium cans back then and Alcoa cash you can for it to get save up from my multimeter? There's a lot of hard work and of course I've done videos on the classic 50 and 100. II When I started with the 51, that's what got me started in electronics. I don't know the 50 and one here. they got newfangled 75 in one but I started with the 50 I went to the hundred and fifty.

so I had that exact one and then I went to the 201 which is not here yet that actually came out later I don't recall ever see in the digital Life computer kit here I think that didn't one of the other bloggers was it Fran or somebody did a video on the the computer kit. similar remote-control cars there are a thing, but they didn't go very far. so pretty pokey. Anyway, fun-filled electronic games from Tandy look at these.

one of these that would have been who originally did that that was like a ColecoVision similar or you know it's not actually that, but you know yet? you got the photo sensor and you got the guns which had shoot and receive the signals from the CRT TV and you can play very crude games. that was six fast action TV Games football, squash, tennis and they all look the same. hilarious. micron.

bedside clocks are digital watch. it's an odd looking stopwatch. anyway. Power supplies yeah like that.

Didn't have any lab supplies or anything like that so that's disappointing. Yeah, you know it was mostly consumer with a bunch of you know they did sell. You know that's all your two resistors in a little cardboard packet for your you know, dollar or whatever the whole famous Tandy were famous for. Have it.

You know you can buy a couple of resistors, you know? Box it a couple of diodes, one diode or something like that in a little cardboard thing. you'd go to the racks and get it off. but hey, you know it was the nearest thing to me. I if I had to go to if I want to go dick Smith I had to hop on the long bus to black town which was the nearest store or I catch a train often I go into the city in little Silicon Alley there in York Street I'm sure I've mentioned that before where there was a row of they had David Reed Electronics Dick Smith Electronics J Car electronics and who know our Tronics weren't they're worthy? No, no I don't think so.

Anyway, they're like three or four of them in a row. they're all in that York Street I think I don't know I've been there for so long I think only one of them still there or something. or if not any. Anyway, some old radio is fantastic.

super tight, super chrome realistic. you know that was the cheap garbage. You go up to the super Fairy Chrome brilliant and have the reel-to-reel tapes. This is great stuff, but I wasn't really into that.

Desktop calculators though. Look at this for all the accounting and stuff like that and we've got a couple of Scientifics back then. of course all the Tandy calculators are all rebadged casio calculators. They're the ones who who did them all.

so you can get the exact same models in Casio So that's like the FX 82 or something like that if memory serves me correctly. So, but of course they never put the Tandy RadioShack rebadged everything. The Fat Free Battery A Month Club. Hands up.

Hands up. If you had more than one or even one or more than one free battery of the Month Club every month you'd go in and they'd mark it off it. It'd have like a every month on it and they'd leave it like stamp it out or cut it out or something like that and you'd went in and you got your free battery every month. And of course you'd always get the 9-volt one right because that was the most expensive and the most useful.

So yeah, you wouldn't just get like a single double-a or do you know, occasionally you might get a couple of D cells or something, but you pretty much always go for the 9-volt job'. Anyway, that's the hat was terrific. that didn't give you the standard ones I Don't think yeah, they wouldn't ever give you the alkaline ones anyway. Ultratop in a cell miracle sale jacket for Lek protection.

last of the three times longer. specially processed electrolyte. ah scanners. My old man had a Pro 20.

this is the Pro 2001. My old man had a Pro 2020 scanner and I used to listen to it all the time because back then you could pick up the the the police and the ambulance on just a regular analog frequency so you could just listen in to all the police art, cars and then you know, talking back to base and all that sort of stuff. So here you still like listening. He was obsessed with listening in that sort of stuff.

I don't think I have that 20/20 anymore. Anyway, yeah, the first thing I did I secretly took it apart well he wasn't wasn't around, he went out and the first thing I did was take the thing apart. and I was amazed. There were like surface mount stuff in there I believe and I was just anyway.

if I can find it I'll put in half a shot of the pro 20/20 scanner. So hands up if you had a scanner back in the day they were. they were a big thing and you could even listen to up mobile phones. When mobile phones first came came out, of course there's none this digital rubbish.

It was analog so you'd actually listen in I think it was Ace 8 800 megahertz or something. you could actually listen in to. This one didn't ago. yes it 472 512 but I distinctly remember or maybe the 20/20 did higher I distinctly remember listening in to people's analog phone.

you know, mobile phone calls and they were just boring a shift very quickly gave up, you know? So yep. anyway I look at these like portable desktop cassette ones. where's the you know, the air long-wave yep long wave receiver. that was all the rage.

Transistor radios Fantastic. We listened to the trots just more remote control stuff bed so clock radio so we're coming to the end. Ah anyway Trash 80 all the trash 80 fanboys go wild and they probably upset with me from corner the trash 80 Anyway they growing library a Trs-80 User programs on tight Rs-232 serial interface expand your system voice synthesizer Brilliant. Hands up if you had the Trash eighty voice synthesizer well I didn't think I don't ever recall that being sold here.

Maybe it was. Anyway, you want to print eleven hundred and fifty pounds to this top-of-the-line Dom A hundred and twenty characters per second. That sucker is screaming along. Absolutely.

Where was that an 18 pin? No, nobody. Yeah, nine. No, it's only a nine. Punjabi for that sort of money.

and what the I'd want the 18 pin? Geez. Anyway, goodbye the matching furniture fantastic and the tiara. Say the expansion interface they don't. Um, yeah, they don't.

Really, that's it. Anyway, it's on the back. There you go. the terrace ad uh, it's it's the model one that's all I had so they hadn't even got on.

presumably no nineteen eighty if I Remember my timeline wind wind is the model to and model three come out anyway. Yeah, there you go. You could expand that sucker. And before they release there are business machines of course like more and this is like consumer oriented one.

but then they got into the business ones with the model R3 and the model for and others. but spend it with four disk drives. This is incredible expansion interface. Unbelievable.

That didn't take too long I Thought that'd be I Thought it'd be much longer than that. Anyway, there it is. So thank you very much Ant Cross for sending that in that it brings back some memories. Fantastic good, better best please leave it in your comments.

your best memory of your Tandi stuff and ears still use Tandy stuff back in the day memories of visiting Tandy as a kid because I can remember walking up there I needed my you know 4000 series chip or over seven four series chip I Go up there. you'd get one chip in the little cardboard packet that was hanging on resistors. a pack of a hundred? Hi dream on There you go. Yet you get your pack of two resistors for twelve pence twelve.

P back in the day I've pack of five I Could what are their that a half? What job is there? The big ones in the quarter? What? resistors Pack of five for twelve P low-noise jobs. Terrific stuff, but you know they had it all in their cardboard thing. It was terrific. And you go up there and you get your individual chips and yeah, that's how I did they let us back in those days on a breadboard or a home etched PCB Fantastic stuff.

Anyway, give us your best memories down below in the comments. Catch you next time.