Re: [ARSCLIST] Concertapes -- what became of it? (N78C!)

["Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> At 11:42 PM 2007-10-11, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> > Well, near as I recall, "Concertape" was a brand name used for "Radio 
> > Shack"
> I think the stuff in the white boxes (at least south of the border) was 
> called Concert Tape (not concatenated) and it was just a fancy "white box" 
> tape of varying quality as I recall.
Well, up here (IIRC), "Concertape" was a house brand for Tandy/Radio 
Shack...?
> > (now "Circuit City" here in
> > frozen Canuckistan, since the term "radio shack" was related to a much 
> > earlier era in ham radio, when one
> > "borrowed" both the UX-245's out of the household radio in order to build 
> > an up-to-date transmitter...!)
>
> As I understand the change, the people in Barrie who had the Canadian 
> license to use the name/logo "Radio Shack" lost that right (refused to 
> renew/whatever) so they ended up being bought out by the U.S. Circuit City 
> (or they lost it because they were bought out as I said whatever) and at 
> least the last time I looked, it was called "The Source by Circuit City"
Either way, the operation had/has lost most of its usefulness! There was a 
time when
"Radio Shack" had a computer-based listing of things like obsolete "needles" 
and
cartridges...which could be special-ordered from some distant "headquarters" 
should
one require same...!

In fact, back in the late fifties, when I was K(N)9JOO, I used to receive 
catalogs from
outfits like (the original) "Radio Shack"..."Allied Radio"...and a number of 
dealers in
"war surplus" (a category which has disappeared, and NOT due to a shortage 
of wars...!).

Somewhere out in Radio-Land, there MUST exist a huge quantity of leftover 
"war surplus"
which NOBODY ever bought...?!

Steven C. Barr
> And FROZEN? Canuckistan???? I thought we were having a very very warm 
> October or is the weather much colder where you are than in Aurora? Last 
> night was the first cold night -- I think it got down to 3 C.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Aurora, Ontario, Canada       (905) 713 6733     1-877-TAPE-FIX
> Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
> Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.