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When I was a kid, my dad sat next to a different RadioShack CEO on a plane. He mentioned that I was always in the store and Mr. Roberts gave him this, https://

• luckydata 6y ago
  that's cute :) I know my kid would have really liked something like that.
  • tamaharbor 6y ago
    I still miss the ‘free battery of the month’ club.
• mikeappell 6y ago
  That's really cool. I wonder what would have happened if you'd called that number.
• lisper 6y ago
  Heh, I thought it was going to be a P-box kit :-) https://hackaday.com/2018/12/14/retrotechtacular-remembering-radio-shack-p-box-kits/ https://hackaday.com/2018/12/14/retrotechtacular-remembering...
• neilv 6y ago
  That's something! The closest I have is a rejection letter from Radio Shack HQ, I received as a kid, maybe around age 12. I'd spent many hours ogling parts and gear in their stores, and practically memorized their catalogs. So I was a big fan, and I'd written to their headquarters, proposing that I would write a hobby computers&electronics book, in the vein of some of the Forrest Mims projects articles I'd read. (With the difference being that I had almost no knowledge worth sharing.) I got back a polite letter, on Radio Shack stationery, not mentioning that I was obviously just a kid, and saying that they didn't wish to develop a hobby book, but if I developed it otherwise, they'd be happy to review a copy off the press. I had my first rejection letter framed for a while, but lost the original during a very lean move right after grad school, and now I only have a scan of it.
• prvc 6y ago
  That's very nice. What sort of use did you make of it?