6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
5:54 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:16:40 -0500
"Cmurray" <cmurray at eagle.ca> wrote:
I quite agree. Here in Canada Radio Shack has moved
into the mass
consumer market leaving the electronic hobbyist to fend for himself.
Here in the Toronto area we have access to specialty electronic stores
that cater to our needs.
Murray
eBay has helped people who are 'land locked' in areas where there are no
parts. There are a lot of sellers of electronic components. I was
scarfing up tubes of interesting TTL gates recently, and built up a good
assortment of discrete transistors that way awhile back. So electronics
hobbyists don't have to 'fend for themselves' entirely.
Also, there is SO MUCH good stuff that just gets scrapped these days. I
would never have imagined when I was a kid in High School that good
power supplies would ever be had for 'haul it away' prices. There is a
wealth of good components in any scrapped PC. It's gotten so we all
take it for granted. I used to pull discrete parts (crystals,
semiconductors, etc.) off boards for reuse.