Re: Bygone radio traders
I about 1962 I was repairing radio and TV sets at a shop in north Manchester called 'Rialto Electrics'. There was a smaller sister shop which was also the 'office' which was in the same building as the Rialto cinema. The owner of the two shops was a Mr Benny Kay.
I think I worked there for about 3 or four years but then changed jobs, however Ben Kay later went on to open the Newmart shops. Today I came across a purchase I made in the Shudehill shop and which is still in the brown paper bag I brought it home in almost 40 years ago. It was one of those things I thought would come in handy but obviously not handy enough. The receipt has long gone.
Its a 7" square, double sided piece of Veroboard with the front and back tracks running at 90 degrees to each other so ideal for a diode matrix.
Over the years I have built hundreds of circuits on normal veroboard, this piece has survived intact because its more or less unusable for any normal project
The picture of the bag shows the address of the three shops.
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