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Were those the days when you had to show proof of a permit from the
Postmaster General before you could purchase anything that might conceivably
be used in the construction of a radio set?

You can see something similar if you walk into your local auto parts
store. Only, most people there won't be wearing coats and ties, and the
only hats you'll see will be baseball caps. Oh well, those were the days...

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Shawn K
www.thisoldradio.com

"Shawn K" wrote in message
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You can see something similar if you walk into your local auto parts
store. Only, most people there won't be wearing coats and ties, and the
only hats you'll see will be baseball caps. Oh well, those were the
days...

Type approvals etc etc..........

Give it time - the auto parts stores will go the same way!

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What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been
"back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and pieces
to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell phones or
satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not like now.
It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround sound, and cell
phones.

From an radio hobbyist point of view, those were the days. I don't know
about spies and government regulations.

"NotMe" wrote in message
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"NotMe" wrote in message
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What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been
"back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and
pieces to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell
phones or satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not
like now. It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround sound,
and cell phones.

In those days when old folk thought that if you switched on a light with no
bulb in the socket, that electricity would fill the room like gas and kill
them, there would have been many people who felt the same way about wireless
as you do about HDTV & mobile phones.

Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my mother's
hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she didn't carry spares
because they would magnetize everything in her purse!

--
Jim Mueller

To get my real email address, replace wrongname with eportiz. Then replace
nospam with sacbeemail.

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"NotMe" wrote in message
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"NotMe" wrote in message
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What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been
"back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and
pieces to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell
phones or satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not
like now. It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround
sound, and cell phones.

In those days when old folk thought that if you switched on a light with
no bulb in the socket, that electricity would fill the room like gas and
kill them, there would have been many people who felt the same way about
wireless as you do about HDTV & mobile phones.

"Jim Mueller" wrote in
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Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my
mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she
didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in
her purse!

Including her little Kleenex packet?

And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this
wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse,
including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.)

William Sommerwerck wrote:
"Jim Mueller" wrote in
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Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my
mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she
didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in
her purse!

Including her little Kleenex packet?

And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this
wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse,
including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.)


Most people are disconnected from the modern technologies. I once went
to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The
sales girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in
the fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Ken

That kinda reminds me of the old Lafayette store in Portland Oregon . We
used to go there when i was to young to know much about the stuff .
My brother would buy parts . I remember real long rows of counters with
shelves full behind them and neet stuff in the glass counters .

We still have a thriving small parts house here with resistors ,
capacitors , tons of NTE , pots , soldering iron tips , test leads ,
bulbs , wire and all the goodys .
I almost feel wrong going in there thinking it cant be true or i will
wake up with empty hands .