[Milsurplus] Surplus Electronics Catalog scanned

[J. Forster]

I remember a wood paneled (basement?) sales room with shelves on the wall,
sparsely populated with very clean green radios. Not your usual surplus
store. It looked much more like a new gear showroom.

Best,

-John

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> 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
>
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