13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
12:24 p.m.
On 08/13/2012 08:29 AM, David Riley wrote:
I disagree, with qualifications. Back in Baltimore, there's a great
little electronics store called Baynesville Electronics which is more
or less what Radio Shack always should have been. It's the only place
in the local area (and I live in Philadelphia now) where I can go and
pick up a handful of resistors, obscure batteries and cables of all
kinds (need an MMCX->RP-SMA cable right now? They have one) on the
spur of the moment. More expensive than Digi-Key, but if I need some
parts RIGHT NOW, it's a great option. Less of one now that I live in
Philly.
I wish there were more around like that. And there are, in the SF Bay
area (visit Halted next time you're out there; you won't be sorry).
I'll absolutely agree they're dying, but sometimes they're not
overrated.
I was referring to the common ones, like Best Buy, that are
everywhere. Stores like the one you describe aren't exactly ubiquitous,
and as far as I'm aware, they never were.
That said, though, I lived just south of Baltimore for a decade, and I
really, really wish I'd known about that store!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
I don't know; I've never really looked. If I
could buy such a
converter at the local brick-and-mortar the same way, at the same time
as, I buy the drive? Then you might have a point. Otherwise, at the
very least it's raised the bar substantially.
I dunno Mouse. You and I usually agree on this sort of thing, but
this time I have to disagree. It's a whole lot easier to to sit here in
my underwear at 4AM, click on a listing and have it show up at my door a
week later...in the meantime I can get back to doing real work, and not
have to deal with the "duhhhhhhhhhhhhh" of the mouth-breathers who work
retail these days.
Brick-and-mortar stores are WAY overrated. (and dying)