Radio Shack and Schematics

While there's been much criticism of Radio Shack lately, let's remember that it was one of the few companies that provided schematics with all of the electronics equipment that it sold, typically as part of the owners manual, long after most other companies had ceased to provide them. Granted, many of the Radio Shack employees don't know a capacitor from a transformer, and if you ask them if they sell a 10 mH choke, they'll probably tell you to visit an auto-supply store. However, quite a few of us here most likely got our childhood start in electronics from Radio Shack. Remember the P-box kits, the soldering-iron sets and 100-in-one kits that we got as young children? Alas, in this day of overprotective parents, looney legislators and those mandatory and ridiculous bicycle helmets, car safety seats, lead paint laws, etc., I doubt that many young children these days will receive a soldering iron and 60/40 lead solder from Santa Claus to build kits and other electronic circuits with. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.