[Scan-DC] GRE Scanners ?

[Watson, Chuck]

My first electronics project was building a Lafayette radio.  I think I
used a whole role of solder on it.

Regards,
Charles Watson

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"Parts"?  Another old guy!  :)

What were those glass things called that had 8 metal pins, plugged into
a socket and they glowed?

Radios and televisions used them... the drug stores had machines that
you could use to test them... back when the drug stores had soda
fountains and lunch counters.

There were also places called record stores; they sold these vinyl
disks that had music on them.

Damn I'm old...


> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:33:35 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] GRE Scanners ?
> From: b_thom at juno.com
> CC:
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:11:47 -0400 "D.R. Watkins III" 
> writes:
>> RS does not have to try anymore. The old Heath stores and Lafayette
>> Electronics are **L-O-N-G G-O-N-E**!!! When I wasn't in Radio
>> Shack on
>> Conn Ave NW by the Uptown theater, I spend my "other" free time at
>> the
>> Lafayette at Queens Chapel & Chillum Rds. In Chillum.
>
> Uh-oh, the good old days. I used to go the Lafayette at the
Parkington
> Shopping Center, and to Certified Electronics in Alexandria. Up until
the
> early eighties, there were two surplus stores on King Street in
> Alexandria. I would walk down there to buy a handful of parts.
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