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When I was a kid, my dad sat next to a different RadioShack CEO on a plane. He mentioned that I was always in the store and Mr. Roberts gave him this, https://imgur.com/a/BolEA



That's something!

The closest I have is a rejection letter from Radio Shack HQ, I received as a kid, maybe around age 12. I'd spent many hours ogling parts and gear in their stores, and practically memorized their catalogs. So I was a big fan, and I'd written to their headquarters, proposing that I would write a hobby computers&electronics book, in the vein of some of the Forrest Mims projects articles I'd read. (With the difference being that I had almost no knowledge worth sharing.) I got back a polite letter, on Radio Shack stationery, not mentioning that I was obviously just a kid, and saying that they didn't wish to develop a hobby book, but if I developed it otherwise, they'd be happy to review a copy off the press. I had my first rejection letter framed for a while, but lost the original during a very lean move right after grad school, and now I only have a scan of it.


Heh, I thought it was going to be a P-box kit :-)

https://hackaday.com/2018/12/14/retrotechtacular-remembering...


That's really cool. I wonder what would have happened if you'd called that number.


that's cute :)

I know my kid would have really liked something like that.


That's very nice. What sort of use did you make of it?




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