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To: Jack Hydrazine

My brother built radios from scrap electronic components when he was 14. Radio Shack was his first job at 16. They even had a vacuum tube tester in the store. Or was that at Vonnegut’s? Maybe both.


12 posted on 09/15/2014 8:29:46 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: henkster
They even had a vacuum tube tester in the store.

The Quick stops and 7/11s used to have those, and the common tubes.

25 posted on 09/15/2014 8:36:43 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: henkster
They even had a vacuum tube tester in the store.

Not saying much, I remember the tube tester at Thrifty's and I could even get an ice cream there. I do have fond memories of Radio Shack in the olden days when they had the battery a month club and you could get kits and components. Those were the old days, they lost me when they started demanding addresses and phone numbers for a purchase.

50 posted on 09/15/2014 8:57:04 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: henkster

You mentioned vacuum tubes. My father-in-law has a box full of them that he refuses to part with. Drives my mother-in-law crazy!


110 posted on 09/16/2014 3:56:34 AM PDT by sneakers
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