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Enercell is a battery brand that was sold exclusively by RadioShack at retail stores and online. In a "battery of the month club" promotion introduced in the 1960s and discontinued in the early 1990s, RadioShack customers were issued a free wallet-sized cardboard card which entitled the bearer to one free battery a month when presented in ...
RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer that was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business. Its original parent company, Radio Shack Corporation, was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962, shifting its focus from radio equipment to hobbyist electronic components sold in retail stores.
A battery eliminator is an adapter intended to allow a device intended for battery operation, such as a radio, to be operated from an AC outlet. [10] All radios, except crystal sets, used inconvenient and messy vacuum tube batteries until the mid- to late-1920s. Battery eliminators that plugged into light sockets became very popular. [11]
Each "Adaptaplug" had a single-letter code, but did not provide any other official designation, nor did RadioShack publish the complete specifications and tolerances on barrel and pin dimensions. RadioShack's Web site listed the diameters to the nearest 0.1 mm, and sometimes differs slightly from the official EIAJ RC-5320A standard dimensions.
Maybe you remember the USA Network’s original-programming heyday. From the early 2000s through 2020 or so, it had its own signature brand of high-gloss, lighthearted shows, most with an emphasis ...
The internals of the TRS-80 Model 100. The left half is the back. Processor: 8-bit Oki 80C85, CMOS, 2.4576 MHz; Memory: 32 KB ROM; 8, 16, 24, or 32 KB static RAM.Machines with less than 32 KB can be expanded in 8 KB increments of plug-in static RAM modules.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when John B. McCoy joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -19.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
In October 2008, RadioShack relaunched the ZipZaps line – this time, as XMODS Micro RC. Only the name was changed; all parts were backwards and forwards-compatible between ZipZaps (except the light features of the SE line) and XMODS Micro RC lines, and used the same chassis and controller of the regular ZipZaps line (as opposed to the more advanced features of the SE line).