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Old electronics shops in Melbourne: what's there today (video)

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GlennSprigg:

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--- Quote from: GlennSprigg ---To satisfy old 'Adelaidians' here, (I used to live in Adelaide), there was an ancient shop towards Port Adelaide, that was called 'Robby's' ....
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ooooooo That's pretty much exactly my story .. even just came back from Adelaide today !! I surely must have seen you there. We'd ride down there on our bikes all the way from Prospect on many occasions. Also collected heaps of awesome stuff. Late 60s for me

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It was a great place for any enthusiast in the know!!
I'm glad someone else remembers!!!!...
Could tell a million story's... Must look you up...  :-+

vk6zgo:
For Christmas SWMBO bought me a DVD which has all the copies of "Radio & Hobbies/Radio, Television & Hobbies" magazine from April 1939 to March 1965 on it.

I went on a search through it to find the first & second radios I ever built, wanting  to try building them again, to find out whether they  were as crap as I remember, or was it because I didn't know much at the time & stuffed things up?

This, of course necessitated scrolling through multiple pages, & coming across ads for shops whose stock I had salivated over many years before.
Shop names  & component brands I had forgotten came swirling back.

When I read some articles, I could remember most of the text before I read it.-------thus, the  brain wastes memory space!

Circlotron:
I got one of those DVDs some years ago now too. I know what you mean about the text sticking in your unconscious mind. I didn’t start buying EA until Feb 71 though. Must’ve studied every single word on every page back in those pre Internet days. First radio I built was “Little Jim”, a two valve regenerative job (man, they used that word “job” a lot in the early mags) using a twin triode and headphones. Couldn’t get anything out of it at all. I used a big trimmer cap instead of a proper tuning cap so that wouldn’t have helped...

Those R,TV&H mags on DVD, one shortcoming of them is they don’t have the actual text embedded in the scanned PDFs like many old mags available online do. Dunno how it is done but I’d like to be able to convert them somehow so that they could be searchable using Recoll or similar.

johnh:

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--- Quote from: johnh on November 03, 2015, 03:02:21 am ---All Electronics Components were at 118 Lonsdale St  next door to Wesley Uniting Church, now a pizza restaurant.

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It's now an brand  new multi story office block

cdev:
When I was a kid I used to hop the bus or PATH train to go to the area of lower Manhattan that housed what was then still a fading warren of electronics shops along Canal Street. many of them were , I was told already gone. But there was something special about the remaining unique shops, crammed to the roof with exotic surplus, also new electronics components including exotic new chips could be bought right there, when you had decided what you needed, you just wrote down what you wanted on a little list with the little short pencil they gave you, and they would fetch it for you. There were still a lot of those stores. So many many were in the basements or on the second floors of buildings, entered by going up stairs.
I still remember how amazing the displays of all the parts looked, many of them were blinking or doing whatever it was they did.. (they would build little demos for them)  This was during the heyday of
US electronics manufacturing.

I'm really glad that I got to see it. I also met lots of interesting people in those stores. I made some great friends. Its funny how many of them I kept meeting again and again in various settings.

I guess the world just isn't as big as we think it is!

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