David Coursey reminisces about Radio Shack back in 2015:
The first piece of electronics I remember really wanting badly was a Realistic DX-150A shortwave receiver. It was $109.95. This was more than 40 years ago and I was just a kid interested in radio.
Purchased by my father, that receiver opened the world to me and started me on a career that began at age 15 in at WRR, a Dallas radio station. Next came newspapers, then tech trades and now I am here. Radio Shack did more than change my life, it helped me become me.
Radio Shack did more than change my life, it helped me become me.
At my first newspaper job we wrote stories on Radio Shack TRS-80 computers with big floppy disks and Electric Pencil, the first word processor for home systems.
I have been missing Radio Shack for much of my life. But I miss it much more today.
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