40 years of geek store products

If you want to find a geek in a British shopping center and you don’t fancy braving Games Workshop, one of your best options is Maplin. It’s a specialist electronic products and components store that is roughly equivalent to Radio Shack.

Maplin is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and has marked the occasion in its latest catalog with a series of product listings from past catalogs, many of which look a little odd or unlikely in hindsight, though some were definitely trendsetters. They include the following, listed at their original prices and not adjusted for inflation. The prices don’t include VAT (a sales tax), which was 15 percent for most of the years covered here.



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