Wish I could find my original copy from 1979. And like many of that vintage, one of the first books I picked up was the Engineer’s Notebook by Forrest M. 12-year old me only had Christmas and birthday money to spend, and what I could beg from my parents, so I tended to buy books - I figured I needed to learn before I started blowing money on parts. It was a treasure trove to a budding hardware hobbyist.īut over on the side, invariably near the parts, was a rack of books for sale, mostly under the Archer brand. Perfboard panels on hinges held pegs with cards of resistors for 49 cents, blister packs of 2N2222 transistors and electrolytic capacitors, and everything else you needed to get your project going. In the back of each store, past the displays of Realistic 8-track players, Minimus-7 speakers, Patrolman scanners, and just beyond the battery bin where you could cash in your “Battery of the Month Club” card for a fresh, free 9-volt battery, lay the holy of holies - the parts. There was a time when Radio Shack offered an incredible variety of supplies for the electronics hobbyist.
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