On Wed, 06 May 2009 09:01:37 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Yeah, all the drugstores had tube testers. First I heard of Radio
Shack was when Tandy bought it. I thought why the hell are the guys
who sell leather and carving tools messing around with radios.
Used to read the Tandy catalog, but never got into the leather stuff.
Preferred the Johnson Smith Novelties catalog though.
What kid doesn't want a Whoopee cushion and one of those handshake
buzzers. Plastic pile of dog poop on the couch for the girls was a
good one too.

--Vic