• Graphine@lemmy.world
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    RadioShack.

    I remember going as a kid, once. I was 5 I think. It was…unique. A shit ton of red I remember. And cheap cell phone cords. Wish I could’ve experienced it more. Especially during the 90s. But that’s before my time.

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      If you think 90s Radio Shack was great, trust me when I say that 80s Radio shack was even better. They had Heathkit project kits, robots, various TRS and Tandys, plus PARTS. It was so good.

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      There is a single one-off store in my city (Copenhagen, Denmark) that is almost exactly like a mid 90s radioshack. Cheap cables, electronics projects, bargain bin full of random components, shoddy soldering irons, etc.

      Somehow it’s still around. I’m deathly afraid that it’ll close some day, so I try to shop there whenever possible.

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      I remember going to RadioShack as a kid too and they had a Tandy computer setup. It was magical for 8 year old me. I think they even did repairs back then because that electrical soldering smell is seared in my memory.

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          My family’s fist computer was a Tandy 1000 around 92. I was so stoked to make video games on the fly like Clarissa Explains It All did.

          Little did I know game development takes a little more elbow grease than cutting and pasting pictures of your friends into an existing game format.

          I learned a lot about getting around in DOS because the desktop OS it shipped with was garbage, at least.