A slightly more pedestrian catalog was Radio Shack. And while researching this answer, I just discovered that the Internet has archived all the Radio Shack cata

A slightly more pedestrian catalog was Radio Shack. And while researching this answer, I just discovered that the Internet has archived all the Radio Shack catalogs. Here's one page listing capacitors from 1979.[1] The great folks at archive.org have archived a ridiculous number of these catalogs (and even books like Lance Leventhal's classic Z80 Assembly Language Programming! [2]) [1] http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1979/hr098.html http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1979/hr098.html [2] https://archive.org/details/Z-80_Assembly_Language_Programming_1979_Leventhal https://archive.org/details/Z-80_Assembly_Language_Programmi...