[Milsurplus] Surplus Electronics Catalog scanned

[Edward Greeley]

Yup, Columbia was fairly competitive with their peers in 1962, at least 
for the common, plentiful (then!) items, but they were WAY high for the 
less common and/or newer pieces as compared to their competitors.

I have a '71 or '72 Columbia catalog that is very "slickly" done, all 
professionally typeset and printed on heavy, glossy paper, and they 
don't list ANY prices. I guess by that time they had morphed into a 
supplier to industry and foreign govts. Apparently no interest in 
"surplus hounds" any longer. I never bought anything from them even in 
the '50s and '60s because their prices for the items I wanted was so high.


Nick England wrote:
> Read 'em and weep
> http://www.virhistory.com/ham/columbia-1962.pdf
> Hurry on down to Columbia Electronics 4365 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles
> 19, Calif.
> 
> BC-455 $9.95
> RAK $49.50
> SCR-284 $39.95