Tag: telephone

  • Sturdy construction and great conversational sound quality

    Sturdy construction and great conversational sound quality

    As I mentioned in my prior post, my dad worked at Western Electric in Montgomery Works back in the day. Before the great divestiture of Ma Bell, Western Electric was a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T.  It was a long-lived electrical engineering and manufacturing company founded in 1869.  While Montgomery Works evolved to focus on data…

  • Radio Shack …

    Radio Shack …

    As I’ve dug around in my memory banks, one thing eluded me.  I didn’t remember where my dad bought his tech supplies from.   I remember the Computer Shopper catalog.   I remember playing games on the TI display at Sears at the mall which was about a 30 minutes drive from our house. I…