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Splatter Pak
High-End Scrounger
There it is, my first TT, the BSR 310X for $59.95. What a POS!!
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So what was the deal with the Allied Radio Shack catalog? We used to have these around the house back in the early 70's and I remember drooling over the equipment listed in them. Unlike the Radio Shack catalog from that time period which only offered gear re-branded as Realistic, the Allied RS catalog listed well known brand name equipment and current models. Anyone know what their association with RS was? Could you order from their catalog and pick up your order in the RS store? I never quite understood their relationship. :scratch2:
Brian
An Old Geezer
My father was a franchise catalog house for the company. They were early adopters of computerized inventory systems and as a result lost complete control of their inventory, purchasing and sales. In the last year we'd order items and get shipped sometimes what we'd order and sometimes not. Sometimes we'd get the most interesting equipment. Packing lists would arrive with the orders and there was no resemblence between the shipments and the lists. More oft then naught we'd not get an invoice and have to call the head office to get them but, to no avail. One day we received a letter from the company that it literally was shuttering the doors as it had lost a fortune and could not continue. We worked with them for about a year trying to get invoiced for what we received and did not return and never got to a point where they could reconcile and give us a number so we finally threw up our hands and figured at some time we'd get a call from a receiver or trustee but, never did. SOme time later I took a course on financial controls and the company was a developing case study in developing systems and conversions from manual controls to automated controls and the exposure potential. Revenues were good and sales were not down, it was strictly an inventory control problem that brought the company down as well as the belief throwing wads of cash at an IT deptartment was the way to go.
Fasterdamnit
Super Member
I have the 770H. First time I have seen a price for one new. Cool!
Fasterdamnit
Super Member
+1
After being inside quite a few different changers, including Duals, the Elacs are the better built decks. IMHO the arm is also better sonically even tho it looks rather industrial. I went to the simple, non-adjustable headshell/sled to be rid of all the moving bits and it was a nice improvement. Think the platter is around 6lbs. :thmbsp:
Wow, sounds exactly like what's going on at my work right now. They are throwing huge (and I mean HUGE) amounts of money at the IT department to try and streamline the equipment maintenance scheduling and information gathering process, not to mention time collection. The system has failed time and time again causing corrupt and inaccurate data as well as a huge backlog in the parts ordering process. If we were a business we would have shuttered our doors about 3 years ago.
Thanks - now I understand how Allied fit into the Radio Shack history. I fondly remember the Allied, Lafayette and Radio Shack catalogs around the house back then not to mention numerous pamphlets from audio dealers. My Dad liked to look at audio gear and read up on it but he never strayed from the Fisher 400 receiver and AR2a speakers that he bought back in '63
Brian
An Old Geezer
This lesson has not been learned to this day. While in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery earlier this year, a chap next to me and I got to talking. He had been on the phone continually with the company he worked for trying to figure out why they could not fill orders timely. As we talked, it turned out before they went to a new computer system they were manually doing inventory control and they were about 99% accurate at inventory tie and now can not find major pieces of inventory. As we spoke, I asked him some basic question as to control, systems and running the old and new systems to make sure the new system was working and the new procedures were efficient, being understood and followed and both were being continually monitored. Nope, turned off the old and flipped the switch on the new with no overlap. As we talked, it turned out the IT department did not even put bar coding into effect to control inventory in, out, invoicing, costing or anything else. Could not believe in this day any IT department of any company handling large items not using it. The products are not small, being a hospital supply company handling beds, tables, machines such as EKG, MRI, CT Scan, etc. He told me at the last count they could not locate several of the big units worth millions and could not verify if they ever were received and no way to check if they were shipped out. He asked of I could accet a contract to go into the company and work with them but, sadly because of my medical condition I had to refuse. Sad, because that is what I did for quite a few years with several companies.
This is a link to all the Radio Shack catalogs from 1939 to 2005. Interestingly they had a lot of the major brands before realistic became dominant
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html
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That is exactly what I asked of the IT department when they changed us over from the simple handwritten books and computer logs to the fouled up mess that we have now. I begged them to please run the old and new systems together simultaneously and see if the new system proves out. So they took our computer logs and data books, logged all the information into their new database incorrectly and then threw all the old data and books out! When they flipped the switch to change over nothing worked and all of our handwritten equipment info and the original computer data logs from the past 15-20 years was gone. It's been at least 3 years and everything is still royally screwed. Some things never change
Yeah, I love that site and peruse it fairly often :yes: IIRC they stopped selling other brands of components in '69 or '70, perhaps coinciding with the Allied takeover?
I wish Lafayette had a catalog site like the Radio Shack site - they sold all brands of equipment up until the bitter end.
leepal
Active Member
That seems like quite a lot of money in 1971 for something that was a bit cr@ppy. Was it relatively expensive for the time?
AnalogDigit
Realistic fan.
The Micro Mini turntable was with an all-in-one system with AM/FM radio that my brother had when he joined a record club in 1972. We had it until 1979.
