4 Jun
2010
4 Jun
'10
11 a.m.
On 04/06/10 02:45, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Yep :-(
When it first opened, Fry's was a wonderful
place where you could
find all sorts of things, such as VME bus cards. That aspect didn't
last too long, however.
Maplins had the same sort of 'air' about it. It was about the only place
you could go at two o'clock on a Sunday afternoon and get that one
resistor or whatever that you needed to finish off your project.
"M4K7, quantity five, and M8K1, quantity three please."
You mean M8K2, surely?
(M was the part-prefix for a 0.7W "Min Res"
metal film resistor, but
they were the same size as 0.25W MF / CF resistors)
Oh, I would have asked for '1 off A4K7 and 1 off A8K2, please' . The 'A'
code was a pack of 10 'M' resistors, and was considerablly cheaper than
10 times the price of 1 resistor. And of course you are goign to use the
extras sometime...
I can rememebr asking for $deity knows how many A33R packs (33 ohm
resistors) as series terminators when fully populating a Unibus RAM card.
And a lot of 16 pin turned-pin sockets...
-tony