Out of interest, whereabout in the US is good (mail order) for getting hold of
tools / test gear and components? There's only a Rat Shack in town here, which
as everyone knows is utterly useless for absolutely anything :(
I've only had cause to order from them once, but was quite happy with
Digikey. As the quality of local stores seem to be going down, I'll likely
end up ordering from them again.
The one downside is the Phonebook sized catalogues they've started sending
me on apparently a quarterly basis. I solved the problem quite quickly by
simply sticking them in the Classic Computing section of the Historical
Library. :^)
Zane