6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
5:16 p.m.
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
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Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:20:06 -0700
From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
Subject: Build your %$@! computer here.
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>We sadly live in an era when people are considered
'technical' if they
>can point the right end of a phillips screwdriver at a bunch of clone
>parts and 'build their own' PeeCee.
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Heck with everything all on one mother board your lucky if you can
change the video card.
%$!@ old PC , $#!@ new games that want the latest video.
>I remember checking into the homebuild newsgroup,
thinking maybe they
>were wirewrapping TTL together or something cool.
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My ISP does not seem to suport news groups any more, so I can't say
what is being built.
How about changing the name to alt.I've.added.lights2my.case. I notice
here in Canada
Radio shack has got away from selling almost any kind of real electronic
componemts but
it shure has a lot of small light bulbs and big heavy switches.
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So were you planning to build a computer?
If so what kind?
Ben alias woodelf
6 Mar
6 Mar
5:26 p.m.
I quite agree. Here in Canada Radio Shack has moved
into the mass consumer
market leaving the electronic hobbyist to fend for himself.
That sounds an awful lot like the Rat Schlocks in the United States.
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6:17 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I actually found some switches I needed at an RS that I could not find
anywhere else (including all the finest electronics surplus shops the
Silicon Valley had to offer). That stuff seems to be phasing out now also
however :(
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I quite agree.
Here in Canada Radio Shack has moved into the mass consumer
market leaving the electronic hobbyist to fend for himself.
That sounds an awful lot like the Rat Schlocks in the United States. 
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.
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