RadioShack - Telephone Installation Training - How to Install a Phone Jack & much more!

This video was originally recorded on VHS tape. It was viewed by store managers (and other store salesman) to educate them as to what telephone installation required. It instructed the managers as to how the entire phone system worked; from the central office to the home phone. A better educated salesman = potentially higher profits for the store.
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There you can view the complete RADIO SHACK CATALOG ARCHIVE, and see...
■ 1939-2002 RadioShack Full-Line Products Catalogs
■ 2003-2011 RadioShack Electronic Parts & Accessories Reference Guides
■ 1977-1992 Tandy Computer & Computer Related Catalogs (including the TRS-80 computer line)
■ 1950-2012 RadioShack Sale Catalogs/flyers (domestic & foreign)
■ 1970-2011 RadioShack TV commercials (videos)
■ 1925-2006 RadioShack Electronic Parts & Accessories Advertisements
■ Vintage Photos of Radio Shack Stores & Hi-Fidelity Show Rooms
■ Tandy Computer "Whiz Kids" Comic Books
■ RadioShack Historical Data
■ RadioShack Memorabilia
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[@stephenzies8867]

I Sure Miss Radio Shack Stores They Always Had What I Needed

[@donl1410]

Cool old video. I was wiring homes during that time. If anyone is still working with landline phones, always use Scotch-Loc "red heads" to splice the wires. Just twisting could lend to line trouble. Also, never twist wires together and tighten under one screw terminal. Phone jacks usually have 2-3 washers meant to take one wire between the washers.

[@BoutinMathieu]

Mistake at 48:40, he shoud have said: The red and yellow wires are for RING with negative polarity, while the green and black wires are for TIP with positive polarity.

[@kyliam80]

Strangely eerie to hear this guy, from the 80's, talk about "old terms" named tip and ring. Even now in 2019 the terms tip and ring are still widely used by telecom companies to describe the wiring process of phone.

[@rkworth1]

love the videos and website.. i used to manage several stores back in the late 80's, early 90's. such great memories - i miss the atmosphere of the old stores. unfortunately, they stopped carrying their own product lines - name brands. when they did that, people realized they could just go get the same brands elsewhere - at lower prices. once they did that, the game was over. then- the internet, and r.s. keeping their insanely high prices, put the final nail in the coffin. also- if we look at the products that they sold in my day- all of those items have been consolidated into something a person can hold in their hand- the smart phone. i wish there were more videos of the actual stores. but the training videos give us a good feel of how they used to be. thanks for doing what you do- it is good for the soul.

[@radioshackcatalogs3273]

I couldn't agree with you more. If you want to see a cool collection of old (some very old) store photos, check this out (you'll need Adobe Flash installed)... For large monitors: www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs_extra/history_stores/ For small monitors: www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs_extra/history_stores_small/

[@leeb.7188]

This video is very helpful. I miss the old Radio Shack. It used to be you could go into a RS and the employee would be an electronics buff who could tell you how to fix things and provide the right parts. Now they hire anybody, somebody who was flipping burgers last week, and he doesn't know or care about how to fix anything. That's why RS went bankrupt. The big draw was knowledgeable employees. Once they dropped that feature, there was no point in going there as you could buy a simple phone jack or other part at a lot of other stores.

[@radioshackcatalogs3273]

Yup! Unfortunately, in recent years (last 15 years or so), RadioShack was never able to sustain a sufficient enough customer base to survive. In MY opinion, RadioShack started its slow decline with the advent of the internet. Now local customers could shop ANYWHERE for their electronics instead of going to their local Radio Shack store as they traditionally did in the past. In addition, the days of the repairable devices (TV, Radio, other electronic gadgets) are gone. We now live in a disposable world. Don't fix it. Trash it. And buy a new one. No reason to purchase electronic parts from your local Radio Shack store.

[@neilc.6926]

It's because of two things. First, the ads don't work. Everybody has a sale, it doesn't mean anything. Second, it's because nobody knows how to sell anything! Even Britney Spears couldn't sell Coca-Cola!

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Britney Spears couldn't sell Pepsi.

[@carmenilardi2929]

He's very instructive. I wonder what he looks like now.

[@DAS-Videos]

Once guys like this retired no body knew what to do and copper got all miss color coded and tangled up. Now anyone on copper hears a humming noise :-)

[@willferrel6896]

Dasdfjkl also its still copper dipshit

[@simpliciocamirino2271]

thank you for that sharing sir.

[@RK-gk1fw]

question my phone port in apt has 4 wires. frontier offers 24mbps in my area but i can oly get 12 acording to tech person do to something with the phone hub setup with main office. can someone give me an idea whats the cause?

[@jerryroberts2820]

Am I really the only one who thinks this looks like Chevy Chase? Keep watching and I bet you will see it.

[@watchthis4451]

He kind of does look like him. Maybe I'll re-title the video, "Live from New York...it's Telephone Training Installation!"

[@GT-ub8lp]

I thought the same thing. haha. I could see him doing this and making a comedy skit out of it.

[@ralphups7782]

radio shack was a fantastic store, they changed to tandys late 80's. i think they could be maplins now not to sure though it sure was a great store for us young electronics nuts.

[@georgewall5866]

Thanks so

[@bentlady7197]

How to wire the line to the demarc?

[@alvinhunter9595]

What happened to this Radio Shack! this is a great video.

[@radioshackcatalogs3273]

Sadly, on Thursday, February 5, 2015, after being in business for 94 years, Radio Shack Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

[@leeb.7188]

RadioShack Catalogs There are still some Radio Shack stores around. I heard a new company bought them out of receivership during the bankruptcy proceedings. They closed a lot of the stores. I think there are two left in my county. The new corporate owners retained the name but not the same level of service, unfortunately.

[@radioshackcatalogs3273]

I also know of a couple of people who own privately-owned RadioShack stores. Doing the best they can because this is their livelyhood. Those stores are out there - here & there. But it will never be the same as it was when I grew up. So sad.

[@leeb.7188]

RadioShack Catalogs True. My 84 year old mother lives in a small town with one Radio Shack. They help her a lot with things most younger people could do themselves - anything from programming her remote to taking all her smoke detectors and phones down there once a year to have the batteries replaced. But that's small town, family owned service.

[@radioshackcatalogs3273]

Nice to hear your Mom still has a pleasant experience at RS.

[@ellisgl]

I have one of those "Network Interfaces" in my house,mounted in my garage.k Of course none of the old 1985 phone wiring is used. While there were two line phones, but it wasn't common, since it was split "physically" around the house. Some of the bad things the did while installing "phone cabling" (cat-3) even up in the 90's was that they didn't connect it as "star network". They would reduce costs by putting stuff in parallel.

[@brianleeper5737]

I lived in a house where the builder (Richmond American = garbage) used more wire running the jacks in parallel than if they'd just run a separate cable back to the demarc.

[@maxravnaas1719]

I think we should follow the Color code

[@chuckjones7586]

This not work anymore my house

[@willferrel6896]

Ok great ill just go back to 1989 and get some jobs there lol no im jk good video just dated

[@LINESTELECOMCORDEDTELEPHONES]

Ha ha

[@LibrawLou]

...dated, but not totally obsolete -- very few new videos have the coherent background to understand why much of the current terminology has become inconsistent and contradictory.