The device, up for auction here basically relies on a series of LED lights that float around and land on a series of six options-an approach which can be seen in action here.įirst released in 1983 as the TRS-80 Model 100, it was one of RadioShack's most consistent sellers, originally sold with the tagline "The Micro Executive Workstation." A 1984 article in PC Magazine describing the Executive Decision Maker, a gimmicky product that reminds folks that RadioShack, when it wanted to be, could take on The Sharper Image toe-to-toe. "It's obviously an electronic upgrade of the old fortune-telling Magic 8-Ball, though it lacks the poetic spirit that could express sentiments such as 'Future Hazy Try Again.'" It may have been intended as a cheap radio for mass consumption, but it was secretly a Raspberry Pi for radio-heads. "It wasn't fantastic (there was an awful lot of spectrum crammed into the 180 degree rotation of the tuning knob), but it worked well enough to bring in a surprising number of broadcasts, and exhibited an amazing ability to select a single signal out of a big pile of stations all lumped together," Patrick Innes wrote on his Earthlink site in 2001.
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It wasn't the only hack of its kind, either: One user, inspired by a magazine article, figured out how to take the roots of the Flavoradio and turn it into a shortwave tuner. Once you make a contact on a rig you built yourself, you may find that '940 gathering dust while you experience the thrill of pounding out your call on a 5 watt box!" "For such a simple beast, it works remarkably well.
"Enjoy your Flavorig," author Michael Grier wrote in the issue.
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