• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    i miss old school radioshack. i did not know what all those bins of tiny electronic hobby parts were for, but I desperately wanted to learn. I did eventually but you have to get all your stuff from some shady oligarch.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah we’re living in the ruins of the old America already and have been for like 25 years.

      It’s dirty they just use the same business names they did in the 20th century. While making smoke and mirrors versions of the old products.

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      3 days ago

      i did not know what all those bins of tiny electronic hobby parts were for, but I desperately wanted to learn.

      From what I understand, prior to the personal computer boom of the 1980’s, HAM radio was kind of a big deal with nerds. The parts were there for all manner of electronics tinkering, but a big mainstay was building and modifying radios. Yeah, you had people tinkering with computers in the 1970’s too, but it was more niche (until it wasn’t).