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  1. Haxxor Space Nigga
    Originally posted by Ghost

  2. Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson "Hey mom, I can get Joe Rogan's podcast on this thing"


    That's exactly what I built crystal radios from. Except you didn't actually end up with what they put on the box there. It was more like a flat circuit board. But once you got it set up, you could listen in on hundreds of conversations that nobody else could hear. At the time, in the 1950's, it was a pretty amazing experience. It was only one-way radio, but it was still pretty damned cool.
  3. slide22 African Astronaut
    Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That's exactly what I built crystal radios from. Except you didn't actually end up with what they put on the box there. It was more like a flat circuit board. But once you got it set up, you could listen in on hundreds of conversations that nobody else could hear. At the time, in the 1950's, it was a pretty amazing experience. It was only one-way radio, but it was still pretty damned cool.

    50s?? what are you now, Like 75
  4. slide22 African Astronaut
    Radio Shack sold those. I remember these kits.

    before they closed down they only came in these magnet sets you connected together on a motherboard pre-assembled. didn't teach kids shti.

    but they did have all kinds of transistors and delays and sandwich boards and shit for sell. but the internet put a 90 year old business OUT OF BUSINESS

    2 Navy guys started it in the 1920s or some shit. which is why its called Radio Shack
  5. Originally posted by slide22 Radio Shack sold those. I remember these kits.

    That's exactly where I bought them.
  6. Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
    Originally posted by slide22 Radio Shack sold those. I remember these kits.

    before they closed down they only came in these magnet sets you connected together on a motherboard pre-assembled. didn't teach kids shti.

    but they did have all kinds of transistors and delays and sandwich boards and shit for sell. but the internet put a 90 year old business OUT OF BUSINESS

    2 Navy guys started it in the 1920s or some shit. which is why its called Radio Shack

    It was started in 1921 by two brothers, Theodore and Milton Deutschmann. Neither of them was a "Navy guy".

  7. Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That's exactly what I built crystal radios from. Except you didn't actually end up with what they put on the box there. It was more like a flat circuit board. But once you got it set up, you could listen in on hundreds of conversations that nobody else could hear. At the time, in the 1950's, it was a pretty amazing experience. It was only one-way radio, but it was still pretty damned cool.

    you mean people talk to themselves over radio ?
  8. Originally posted by vindicktive vinny you mean people talk to themselves over radio ?

    No, there were people out there with transmitters/HAM radios talking to each other, and the crystal radio would allow listening in on their conversations.
  9. slide22 African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Speedy Parker It was started in 1921 by two brothers, Theodore and Milton Deutschmann. Neither of them was a "Navy guy".


    Well whatever. they still named it after that part of the ship.
  10. Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
    Originally posted by slide22 Well whatever. they still named it after that part of the ship.

    Lol you are such a nigger. They had nothing to do with the Navy and neither did the name. The term Radio Shack was slang for the radio room on any ship not just Navy ships. Theodore and Milton Deutschmann wanted to provide equipment for the nascent field of amateur radio (also known as ham radio). Ham Radio not Navy....
  11. Bought one of my first computers that was only sold at Radio Shack, which was the Tandy. Monochrome screen with yellow text and about seven applications on it. Cost about $5,000, with a 5mb hard drive.
  12. lockedin Tuskegee Airman
    The author of this post has returned to nothingness
  13. Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ No, there were people out there with transmitters/HAM radios talking to each other, and the crystal radio would allow listening in on their conversations.

    if theyre talking to each other then why did you claim to be able to listen to conversations that "no one else" could hear.
  14. Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Bought one of my first computers that was only sold at Radio Shack, which was the Tandy. Monochrome screen with yellow text and about seven applications on it. Cost about $5,000, with a 5mb hard drive.

    more like homochrome.
  15. Originally posted by vindicktive vinny if theyre talking to each other then why did you claim to be able to listen to conversations that "no one else" could hear.

    I obviously meant those who weren't surfing the midnight hours couldn't hear the conversations, retard. Stop being Mr. Difficult just for Mr. Difficult's sake, you know?
  16. Originally posted by lockedin legend says spectroll still uses it to post on nis today

    It's under my bed right now. I'm talking to you on it, as we speak.
  17. troon African Astronaut
    Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Bought one of my first computers that was only sold at Radio Shack, which was the Tandy. Monochrome screen with yellow text and about seven applications on it. Cost about $5,000, with a 5mb hard drive.

    i just looked these up - was it a TRS-80 with a Z80 and 68k CPU? $5k was a huge amount of money, how did you justify it? Did you program it to do anything useful?

    They had great aesthetics.
  18. Haxxor Space Nigga
    Originally posted by vindicktive vinny more like homochrome.

    Or in your case Pedochrome
  19. Bradley Black Hole
    Originally posted by Haxxor Or in your case Pedochrome

    Chomochromo
  20. Haxxor Space Nigga
    Originally posted by Bradley Chomochromo

    Chinachomo
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