Leo Perez

We use to call it Radio crap.

10MPlayer Loc: California

Exactly. In the mid-70s I worked in my dad's CB radio shop. Once in a while I'd have to buy some connectors or coaxial cable at the shack. It was really thrid rate junk. I'd only buy it in a pinch when I couldn't get what I needed anywhere else.

10MPlayer Loc: California

Lafayette carried quality parts.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Yea, metal contacts looked REAL cheap.

marine73 Loc: Modesto California

In 1983 while attending the Airframe and Power plant classes At Northrop University I purchased and built the Archer Multimeter Kit from Radio Shack, before the instructor would let me use it he said it had to be calibrated. I let him take it to the schools calibration lab and calibrate it. When he gave it back to be he said he had never seen a kit that was so spot on as this particular kit was. He gave me his blessings to use it in class. I still have this multimeter and use it occasionally.

In 1982 while stationed at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station I worked at Tandy Leather in Garden Grove CA. until I was deployed over seas. I learned at lot about Leather crafting and I was also teaching some basic leather craft classes before I was deployed. When I returned from being deployed I started A&P school at Northrop and I continued doing leather crafting as a hobby and was showing in the local fair.

On the side I was selling custom made items. I hung out at Taylors on Red Hill Ave in Tustin CA. and people would see me reading Leather craft books/magazines or Looking at the Tandy Catalogue and then they would ask me if I would make them a belt, wallet, purse, etc. which I usually did for a price. I could always rely on the manager at the garden grove store to help if I got in over my head. I got out of the Corps in 1984 and moved to Tulsa OK to continue my A&P education at Spartans School of Aeronautics (the name has changed since I am here attended I am here 1985-87). I was not doing any leather work from 1985 until about 1998 when I started dabbling with it again

Tandy then closed there stores and I lost my source of local source for leather supplies and help until they started reopening stores. I still have to drive a distance so I only visit the store in Fremont CA. on my way to work. The stamps that I have bought are numbered differently and made in China. The original stamps have also been renumbered which makes it hard when using an old pattern and it calls for a specific stamp for the design.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

TRS-80, Hassig …

It stood for Tandy Radio Shack … the 80 was a reference to the fact it could produce 80 columns of text.

Heretofore - most small computers could only provide 40 columns per screen - by 25 lines …

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

I have that Archer Multimeter … best one I ever used ….

Shame about the downsizing, isn't it? … Creates all kinds of problems, getting stock inventory …

pendennis

Didn't accomplish a lot during my freshman year at U of Louisville, so I enrolled in business college. One of the requirements of all students was typing, and you had to take two classes. I started out on manual Smith-Coronas and Remingtons. I got up to about 35wpm on them. The second term was all on electrics. Like everyone else, those were a god send, and I got up to around 65wpm. However, we had a fellow who was a secretarial whiz, and he could pump out an honest 65wpm on the manuals, and when he got to the electrics, he zoomed up to around 95-100wpm on them. He was actually recruited from business college to one of the top distillers in Louisville. He could also take dictation using Gregg shorthand, and his transcription rate was around 98%, better than most women.

After getting out into the business world, I found I could type just about as well as the secretaries, and usually typed all my papers and letters.

I've never regretted the typing classes.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

I am also around 95-100wpm on my Remington Electric. It seems to be fairly easy on that machine. It's a clone of the IBM Selectric. But, I think it's quite a bit faster than the IBM, Dennis …

marine73 Loc: Modesto California

I had two years typing in High school and was able to type around 65 words per minute on manual Remingtons. After graduating from High School I never touched another typewriter until 1980 when I became a Maintenance Admin clerk for H&MS-11 and then VMFP-3 filling out Logbook pages on a IBM slectric electric typewriter. I never regretted taking the classes, but my dad on the other hand always gave me a hard time about it, now just about everything is done on a computer which requires the use of typing skills or the use of the hunt and peck method.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Hunt and Peck is good … as long as it's accurate - that's the key!!!!

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

I had typing in Jr. High. Never needed to type faster than about 30 WPM in working as clerk then Service rep for the phone company. Still use it today, even for personal letters (more legible),

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

I got a lot of stuff for my ham radio builds, sorry to see them go!

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Where'd they go? ... I still have THREE Radio Shacks - all within a half-hour of here!