Radio Shack catalogs were basically the tech wish books of the ‘80s, ‘90s, and early 2000s. Dropping every year—sometimes multiple seasonal editions—they were packed with everything from Tandy computers and TRS‑80s in the early ‘80s, to camcorders, RC cars, and the latest cordless phones in the ‘90s, and then early MP3 players and Nokia phones by the 2000s. The annual holiday catalogs were the real event, hitting mailboxes with 200+ pages of gadgets you didn’t even know you wanted. Each year you could see the tech evolution—cassette Walkmans to CD players, VHS camcorders to MiniDV, and eventually the first clunky digital cameras. For a lot of people, flipping through a Radio Shack catalog wasn’t just shopping—it was window‑shopping the future from your couch.