For more than 70 years, RadioShack was an electronics hobbyists paradise.
It went bankrupt multiple times in the past decade and now its been sold for parts.
Its X accountfamously shills cryptowith eye-catching NSFW posts.
The cover of the 2000 edition of the RadioShack catalog.© Image via RadioShack Catalogs.
Some of them are hundreds of pages long and provide a window into Americas past.
What was Raytheon before it was a company that built missiles?
Page 8 of thevery first RadioShack catalogshows you a friendly Raytheon that sold replacement vacuum tubes for radios.
Every catalog is present in a digitized and easy to read format.
Browsers even play a sound clip of a page flipping when you move through the catalog.
The catalogs chronicle Americas past as viewed through the lens of electronics nerds.
Theres training videos, commercials, internal sales demonstrations, and commercials for long forgotten devices.
Did you know RadioShack had a theme song in the 1980s?
Now it’s possible for you to hear it.
Theres also internal documents detailing the history of the company, commercials, and even reprints of Answers magazine.
Curating the worlds RadioShack information isnt cheap or easy work and the sites owner is looking for help.
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