jason1976 - 2008-12-11 07:50
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs/1982_small/ look at page 40 for the starting of the boomboxes. someone put alot of work into doing this.
that is so cool...
thanks for sharing!
transwave5000 - 2008-12-11 08:32
Nice find.
Page 47. 1982. I found one of the red low noise cassette at a thrift store.
I always wanted to find a Radio shack cassette.
Never did buy a radio shack cassette before as they seemed over priced at the time.
Page 44. 1982 Top left corner. Found the same bulk eraser at a flea market.
Wrong one. Page 44 bottom 1984. High power bulk eraser. Flea market $5.00.
Yuu can also flip the page by placing the mouse at any corner, click and hold, and then pull the page slowly over.
Or by clicking on any corner.
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Wow, this site is great!
Thanks!
Very cool!!! I remember that catalog,my friend and his dad were a big Radioshack nuts.
Most excellent link!
Very well done!
I like the sound when you turn the page!
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Originally posted by JLF:
Most excellent link!
Very well done!
I like the sound when you turn the page!
I didn't know it made a sound. I had my sound turn down. I just found it today. I see he is missing some catalongs and it says wanted. I was looking at some from the 70's
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.comI've downloaded all of the catalogs' individual JPEG images, all 1GB worth. If anyone wants me to upload a particular year let me know.
Yeah.... 1900 thru 2050 should do it for me.
panasonic.fan - 2008-12-11 14:23
PDF by year?
I'll take 1979-1986
Well, they're not PDFs. Each catalog is comprised of JPEG images for each page. Here's the shared folder for the Radio Shack catalogs:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a897ac8cd78c02c15c09...2498326da7469d9e93d9Right now, it only has 1979 through 1986. I'll add more when time permits. Archives are in RAR format.
astonishing.
I've been looking for hours & see no reason to stop
a labour of love for sure.
I have the 1984 year of the UK version: Tandy
panasonic.fan - 2008-12-11 15:55
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Originally posted by Fatdog:
Well, they're not PDFs. Each catalog is comprised of JPEG images for each page. Here's the shared folder for the Radio Shack catalogs:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a897ac8cd78c02c15c09...2498326da7469d9e93d9Right now, it only has 1979 through 1986. I'll add more when time permits. Archives are in RAR format.
Dude! You're a rock star!
I wasn't expecting you to actually do this. The suggestion of PDF was simply to make them easier to distribute. I'll make a PDF of each year set and post a link.
Make sure you turn the compression off when making the PDF. Otherwise, the extra compression artifacts might ruin some of the pages.
Added:
1974
1976
1977
1978
definetly remembering those days looking through a catalog or sale sheet for my next electronics buy, now I just surf the web
Back when Radio Shack was actually useful...(sigh)...
Thanks for doing this Fatdog... it is a really cool site that this guy put together, but you never know when the lawyers will get involved and fight over a nickel and shut it down. By helping us download these very special pages you are preserving history for us.
Thanks again!
thanks so much for posting this. i have some old radio shack things i have wanted info on for a while. thanks again for posting it.
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Originally posted by billpc55:
thanks so much for posting this. i have some old radio shack things i have wanted info on for a while. thanks again for posting it.
you are welcome bill. I thought people would like the site. when I found it I had to share. I found info on some items I have laying around. I found out the one set of speakers I sold came out in 1979. in that catalog it says new for 79 . If I would of known that I would of listed more info in my ebay listing.
I guess we will have to wait for the 9 other catalogs that are coming "soon" and the 17? other years that are still "wanted".
I cannot wait to look through them all!!!
transwave5000 - 2008-12-11 22:49
FIrst Radio Shack, cassette stereo BOOMBOX,
Realistic SCR-1, 1978, page 9.
Anyone have that model?
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Originally posted by Fatdog:
All catalogs, currently available, are now uploaded!!
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a897ac8cd78c02c15c09...2498326da7469d9e93d9
I see that radioshackcatalogs.com has a catalog for 1961 and I don't see that one on your list. I wish I had some of the missing catalogs to send him.
I sold a pair of the nova 44 headphones on page 44 of the 1976 catalog. I got a little more for them then what they cost new. you got to love ebay for driving up prices.
and on page 82 of the same year they are offering a free educational material. I wonder if I print out that form and send it in what they would think lol.
they are also offering discounts to quantity buyers on the same page. I never new they offered discounts like that.
Cool, love how its been done.
I have an old Tandy book from the UK and a load of the sales books
Fatdog... did you see what was under the "extra" tab? That looks kind of interesting as well....
I had gotten the extra stuff but didn't think that would be of interest. Also, the 1961 catalog was "404" yesterday, but is available along with all the other extra stuff now.
Does anyone have a Realistic SCR-4 like this one (all silver) that they'd like to sell?
A guy in the room opposite me at university in 1988-9 had a pair of the Optimus T110 speakers:
hooked up to an old separates hifi system.
They sounded good but people were surprised that my Wharfedale Diamind IIs:
sounded just as good (driven from new Kenwood separates).
Those optimus speakers have a tweeter & a single 8" woofer. The massive thing at the bottom is a passive radiator. I was surprised by their lack of oompf considering their size.
Still, Wharfdale Diamonds can take one hell of a beating, believe me
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Originally posted by Jason1976:
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Originally posted by billpc55:
thanks so much for posting this. i have some old radio shack things i have wanted info on for a while. thanks again for posting it.
you are welcome bill. I thought people would like the site. when I found it I had to share. I found info on some items I have laying around. I found out the one set of speakers I sold came out in 1979. in that catalog it says new for 79 . If I would of known that I would of listed more info in my ebay listing.
its pretty interesting to go through the years and see how at one point radio shack sold mcintosh stereo gear. to what they sell now.
you can kind of see the peak of thier business being during the foster electronics relationship where they were selling foster produced stereo equipment.
yes radio shack during that time was producing some extremely nice two channel audio gear. for less money than the competetion.
when you go through the catalogs and see some of the clever marketing they had too.
first bucks on us. battery of the month club.
some of its pretty funny. i mean the photos of the guy with the mega phone. as well as some of the recomended uses for their products.
all in all tho its pretty cool stuff. there is no shops like that any more. up here radio shack is no long in business. i miss it.
seeing the radioshack moog ad was pretty funny too. its funny to see how that keyboard sells for the same price used as it was new .
transwave5000 - 2008-12-13 03:19
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Originally posted by Jason1976:
I sold a pair of the nova 44 headphones on page 44 of the 1976 catalog.
Many of there headphones were made by Koss.
And some models were quite good.
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1985 was the last 'boombox' catalog.
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Im gonna write this guy and thank him for uploading and making the page. I have been looking for a site like this for many many many years!
Thanks Jason for the find! And a real big THANK YOU TO "Fatdog" for preserving these just in case someone shuts this site down. I would of done the same but with working near 15 hours a day 6 days a week I just don't have time right now.
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Originally posted by chilinvilin:
Thanks Jason for the find! And a real big THANK YOU TO "Fatdog" for preserving these just in case someone shuts this site down. I would of done the same but with working near 15 hours a day 6 days a week I just dont have time right now.
No problem! But I never would have known about the site without Jason.
I only found it from another forum I belong to. someone posted it and I had to share.
I must It is bring back alot of memorys looking threw them.
really cool find
That's the way to spread the wealth of this treasure for sure. Thanks Jason and FatDog! I always loved the sound of those big tower speakers.
Thanks for sharing old RadioShack catalogs.
4/Give me, but I don't think one should drive up the price of anything just because ebay posted it higher. Don't 4/Get, it's not ebay asking the prices it's whoever owns the merch. Don't ask for more than something is worth because it may come back to bite you in the arse!
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Originally posted by Jason1976:
I sold a pair of the nova 44 headphones on page 44 of the 1976 catalog. I got a little more for them then what they cost new. you got to love ebay for driving up prices.
and on page 82 of the same year they are offering a free educational material. I wonder if I print out that form and send it in what they would think lol.
they are also offering discounts to quantity buyers on the same page. I never new they offered discounts like that.
This contributor went to a thrift store 4 months ago & picked up two Nova 44's for a measly 2 bucks!! I will visit that thrift store often & send my friends there, too!!
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Originally posted by quing1:
4/Give me, but I don't think one should drive up the price of anything just because ebay posted it higher. Don't 4/Get, it's not ebay asking the prices it's whoever owns the merch. Don't ask for more than something is worth because it may come back to bite you in the arse!
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Originally posted by Jason1976:
I sold a pair of the nova 44 headphones on page 44 of the 1976 catalog. I got a little more for them then what they cost new. you got to love ebay for driving up prices.
and on page 82 of the same year they are offering a free educational material. I wonder if I print out that form and send it in what they would think lol.
they are also offering discounts to quantity buyers on the same page. I never new they offered discounts like that.
Correction!! They're Nova 67's but they say "Optimus" on the outside of each earcup.
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Originally posted by quing1:
This contributor went to a thrift store 4 months ago & picked up two Nova 44's for a measly 2 bucks!! I will visit that thrift store often & send my friends there, too!!
quote:
Originally posted by quing1:
4/Give me, but I don't think one should drive up the price of anything just because ebay posted it higher. Don't 4/Get, it's not ebay asking the prices it's whoever owns the merch. Don't ask for more than something is worth because it may come back to bite you in the arse!
quote:
Originally posted by Jason1976:
I sold a pair of the nova 44 headphones on page 44 of the 1976 catalog. I got a little more for them then what they cost new. you got to love ebay for driving up prices.
and on page 82 of the same year they are offering a free educational material. I wonder if I print out that form and send it in what they would think lol.
they are also offering discounts to quantity buyers on the same page. I never new they offered discounts like that.
what an extraordinary collection of catalogues - i very clearly remember many of them (as tandy in the uk) always got the latest one every year & used to spend hours looking at the boomboxes & hi fi seperates....love some of the descriptions for some like "fast attack" 10 segment led meters! lol - also notice how some of the product lines ran for years unchanged! don't think tandy exists here anymore sadly the last one in this area vanished in the mid 90's.....many thanks for posting these i used adobe acrobat pro to create pdf style catalogues of the years i remember so well - the early 80's truly was the golden age of quality electronics....am wading slowly through this site recognising so many boxes from that period
hello, my first time writing...
i had the Modulaire 1000 boombox (1985 radio shack cat. page 35). the box didnt have a bad sound. i remember listening to both this and the SCR-8.(the big classic style box.) the 1000 sounded better. attn. to detail was nice too.
well, maybe 4-5 months after i bought it with the turntable, (i might add)the speakers blew. went back to rs and bought some off the shelf jobbies and a month or so later the cassette stopped and then the whole radio shut down shortly after that. at 15 years old i was kinda dissapointed. afew years back i found one in Miami flee market. bought it for $10.00. i was excited. play it for alittle while and the speakers blew again. Errrr. i opened up the spkr cab. and found out the the wattage on the 5" woofer was alot lower than the amp output.. I wonder if they did that on purpose???
anyways i have a few boxes i'll post eventually.....
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Originally posted by fopeskr:
.........maybe 4-5 months after i bought ....the speakers blew.
afew years back i found one in Miami flee market. bought it for $10.00. i was excited. play it for alittle while and the speakers blew again. .....
Sounds like you got the midas touch. All I can say is....... hands off MY boomboxes!
How nice would be that this kind of digital archiving and free showing will be applied someday also to old Hi-Fi and Stereo test magazines from that golden age of audio electronics.
Are those Realistic gears made mainly by Sanyo?
It seems to me that many have some resemblance to Sanyos.
nice stuff
