some different catalogs

Advertisements Flyers circulars what-have-you for different retailers both dead and alive and this one is pretty much dead

Unfortunately, this is RadioShack. We're gonna be taking a look at two different catalogues here one from April of

1979 it's a bit before my time

But I'm intrigued by a lot of the stuff that is probably going to be in here

I say probably because I'm looking through these yet

and then also this one here that I'm much more nostalgic for cuz I remember it is the RadioShack Christmas catalog December of

1991 and let's go ahead and dive into this because I find this to be

insanely intriguing

For a couple of reasons one to get some sort of first-hand knowledge of what some of these items cost and how they were

Advertising them which oddly enough can be very much lost a time

Especially for these kind of circulars and ads and flyers and things that you would see

that were either sent directly to people in the mail box which I believe these were and

Also, they were just stuck into the middle like an insert inside of newspapers during Sundays

There's very few archives of them online so

Anytime that I find them like in a bundle on eBay or whatever?

I buy them, so let's look through them and hope to we find something interesting in here

RadioShack

kind of sad that they're gone the last one finally closed recently nearby and I've already missed them a little bit because

Sometimes you just needed a weird thing and they had it anyway

I'm sure we're gonna be seeing plenty of weird things in here

Let's get right to it starting with the Chairman's thoughts as is their largest sales flyer of the year. That's nice

And he's pushing this Memorex

It's almost a that way

It was a thousand dollars

And then as $8.99 for a pretty sleek looking video VHS camcorder the world's smallest and lightest full-size one apparently

sweet stuff that would have been awesome in 91 and of course a

Very fond memories of these clear phones

I had one of these seems like everyone did at one point or another there was just a lot of clear electronics and 90's period

Game boys and consoles and phones and just everything calculators, whatever

So we have some spectacular gifts from our video. Shaq a lot of Memorex gifts apparently Memorex Memorex memorized Memorex this one's awesome

400 bucks auto head cleaning Plus MTS stereo and broadcasts

And I've seen like these stacked up and Goodwill's fraud like a dollar

And yeah some realistic thingies in here too and mixed in between the Memorex realistic was their in-house brand in case you're not aware

So yea RadioShack had their cheaper alternatives like these here's a little pocket color TV

I never actually knew anyone that had one of those, but I would thought they were extremely cool

They were definitely a central place to go for audio programmable portable CD player

They're 420 bucks not bad was

$179 and what is what the as seen on TV here as seen on TV see on TV

What TV station was putting these? Yeah well?

Now here we go some high five stacks and

Assorted things that the while these aren't the greatest ones these are all realistic brand not anything that I would necessarily go for nowadays even

Though they look like aesthetically very pleasing. I got to love the woodgrain everything seems like everyone had one

I don't remember why

It was always there it was like a stack things and components

And he had some big friggin speakers that were too big for we never played music that loud we had giant speakers anyway

And you know glass on the front there which was sweet. I just like moving that glass door

RadioShack gifts for people on the go, yes RadioShack sold radios. They were a shack for radios. Yeah, we got CB radios

stereo cassettes walkie-talkies shortwave radios

Some other crap this one's ridiculously expensive. What is that 2 meter VHF FM ham transceiver?

Goodness, and we have a nice deal on pull out here. Oh

What oh it's an am/fm CD player?

I guess that goes and oh yeah dashboard CD player for 360 bucks. My dad ended up putting one in his Mitsubishi truck

Sometime in the mid 90s mid late 90s. I guess was late 90s. I don't know, but it was like oh, man

it was so cool and

I had no clue that Tammi did cell phones. What is this personal size cellphone goes anywhere?

That's pretty neat, so I'm intrigued

I love Tandy stuff as you've probably seen if you saw my video a while back where I went into Radio Shack just before they

Shut down and bought some Tandy things

They brought back the brand right at the end car or carry you could put this one in the car or carry it around

It's the future

Ask Santa Claus for your own Tandy facts

Santa Claus give me a fax machine. I can just imagine 90 Santa getting orders for fax machines on his pager

And he's like oh, I just got a page about a fax machine better put it my Trapper Keeper

And he writes his notes in a Trapper Keeper right next to a like a folder of a Lamborghini Countach

Yeah, 90s Santa was the best

he's

comedy

outgoing message cassettes you give rich little volume one into comedy edition and Julie Dee's yeah

I remember that being a thing there was one of our family friends had an answering machine

They looked they were much older than this, but yeah they

Had some Australian actor sounding dude doing the answering thing and it was funny

I guess because it was like oh, they're not Australian huh, I don't know man

This is the kind of area of this catalogue that I was really wanting to get to because holy crap computers

by Tandy its Tandy 1000 rl/hd oh and

Then this one right here was this an 11-10 HD. Yep. Oh

I want them both I

Still do even though. I have this one

I want another one why not because it looks so new and fresh and clean then they're not yellowed at all. They look so nice

Mmm. I don't know what this is about what is this Good Housekeeping promises a limited warranty to consumers

replacement or refund if

Defective is like Good Housekeeping gonna come by and give me a new Tandy if it breaks like the magazine

What is that check this out though? Holy nuts?

40 megabyte hard drive for

$400 or

$349 as it's on sale during Christmas. That's a lot. That's more than I expected even. What are these oh?

Well, I guess these are smart dry so they're a little different

Maybe these I've never used before like these 11 10s

And the 1100 series kind of computers of it's a really cool form factor

and I like the fact that they have you know they run like a full ms-dos and

Tandy Deskmate and other things either using NEC v20

But it's cool. It's a little compact thing that runs Das and holy crap Oh

Baby, this is the this is the centerfold computer of the catalog literally the center?

In this very room. I'm proud of that. These are some of these are kind of hard to find

This is an interesting little computer though Tandy 1000 RLX HD. It's a

286

ten megahertz 1 Meg of RAM once again and a VGA

Okay, here we go special purchase sound blaster incredible PC card with 11 voice music MIDI interface in software

140 dollars and you know if you were to hear one of these brand-new in box today like an eBay that still be a pretty

Good deal

South guards are getting darn collectible

Gift problems solve them electronically yeah

it's still my go-to piece of advice for myself got pocket calculators a sweet-looking friggin dinner and watch a

Compact disc table clock which confuses me. I did not know that they sold those in stores

I've seen like a million iterations of this that people just make themselves

With like a clock kit and an old CD and put them together, but maybe at the time

It was more novel and worth $15. I don't know

Yeah, these little Franklin dealios. These are kind of neat actually I have a few of them like this one

You know the advanced spellchecker pretty much just a dictionary

Get some language translators a kid spell checker with built-in games

That would be pretty fun to look at dictionary thesaurus language trainer, so those are kind of neat

I pick those up sometimes when I find them in thrift stores and

Yeah, here we go here. Here's some of the cheaper junk that I really expected from RadioShack

And it always amuses me is like well. They're actually advertising some of this garbage like here's a $5

Flavor Radio yes these tasteful am radios for five bucks

including blackberry blueberry and strawberry

Yeah, I've got a blackberry

Am/fm bike radio with horn. That would have been amazing I woulda loved that as a kid. I was a weather radio, cube

I've run across one of these in a thrift store not too long ago

It's just like a little cube, and it's all clad in wood grain

And it's got a neat little button on the top

And it just picks up the weather or weather radio station up to 25 miles away. It's just a cube. It's like wood green

The colors of Christmas at a light display here

Little plasma ball, and that was on 90 staple definitely had one of those

Same with a strobe light we have this exact same one clad and woodgrain like that the same design and everything

I thought I think we got ours at Spencer's a

hundred caroling lights

Computerized lights when is this twenty one all-time favorite Christmas carols they dance in time with the music realistic keyboards now

That's something

I have never ever run across in a thrift store realistic is just not a brand that I see very often and as far as

keyboards

Rep like a pro this Christmas aha yeah with your $79

Realistic concert mate 800 wrap up your gift list

huh

With 25 tones 30 rhythms three drum pads dual sound scratch table and a mic

I'm using I'm not really sure how that works I'd kind of love to pick one of those up to be honest

and then I would send it to a bit keys because

That's just not my expertise area at all

Here we go though. These are awesome. I remember these little science kits is one of those things

It's like I wanted and then you get it. Just like I don't know what to do with this

I got chemistry set and I had one of those and I didn't know what to do with that

Oh here

We go LCD action games for all ages tabletop space alien table die baseball tabletop football

Executive consultant great for those difficult decisions. What was with these I?

Reviewed one of these on odd where it was a little different form factor obviously

But these executive consultant devices are confusing just the toss-up

You might as well use a magic 8-ball, which I did in that video stress Eliminator sound off during stressful situations with zapper

Ratatat alien laser shot bombs away quick shot or blaster

Why if there was an executive with one of those on his desk? I would probably be questioning the executive decisions

Anyway, we have some exciting action toys all of these like remember laser pistol and space pistol and laser sword and electronic

rifle

is all look like just the most generic things and

Honestly, that's kind of why I find them so charming like what is this puppy watch

It's not any branded anything. There's nothing tying this to anything

futuristic galactic man

electronic pick-up sticks

Handheld rap mic. There's another one of those things great gift for pint-sized rap masters

Let them rap like a pro. This is 1991 all right pet a bull radios. It's a radio inside of a stuffed animal

That's amusing oh

Here we go

These are pretty cool. That was one thing

I always loved going into Radio Shack for the 90s was because of all the remote-control cars sometimes

They would have them like like actually set up, and you could play them and stuff that was pretty rad

Remote-controlled dinosaur, that's a two foot tall dinosaur. That's pretty awesome. I would still buy one of those

I don't know who they contracted to like make these and maybe they made them in-house. I don't know it was seen on TV though

Turbo Raceway see battle spell in math

It's like a Speak & Spell that like not all these weird little not quite licensed things check this out

Stack challenge game stack the bricks, and win yeah, we can't call it Tetris. You know his Tetris

we know his Tetris, but we're not gonna tell you because

Issues

That's radios Jack. It's

It's wonderful

well that was the 90s, but let's go back even further and take a look at the

1979 Spring Sale from Radio Shack here starting with the

compact 2-way hi-fi speaker system by realistic with a trumpet I

Guess I don't know I mean why why is that there just because it has a tweeter

Put an instrument on there and all them automatically that's better either way. That's some fantastic covering for the speaker there and the wood grain

I'm hoping there's gonna be a lot of I know there's gonna be a lot of wood grain in here, so

All sorts of 8-track stuff straight away. We got Porter blade tracks

car 8-track players oh

Yeah, 8-track cartridge cases blank tapes and lazy's isn't sweet

Like it costs 259 for an 80-minute blank 8-track and a dollar ninety-nine for a 40-minute. This is pretty sweet 8-track deck with Dolby

Asterisk who's the asterisk I'll Dobby noise

reduction well of course

I don't know why I'll say it could have meant

With Dolby like like a guy named Dolby it comes with him

What does this come with vu meters dual lighted glow red during record orange during playback?

Oh, that's a cool feature. I like that anyway

Yeah, we got CB radios because of course I gotta say I like this one telephone type mobile CB