Re: Tandy, Radio-Shack catalogues and history
Well, one of the problems was that they didn't sell small components like resistors in singles, but rather in packs, so if your project only called for 1 x 6K8 resistor, 1 x 18K resistor and 1 x 82K resistor and you couldn't buy less than 10 that soon mounted up.
What was great about them was that when you bought a chip it invariably came in a bubble pack with the data sheet neatly folded up in the back.
They also used to sell bubble packs of mixed / miscellaneous RF inductors which were a godsend in my earliest days of mucking about with homebrew radio receivers and transmitters.
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