Tony Duell wrote: The place I was thinking of is Cricklewood Electronics. Easy to reach by pnblic transport from central London, and they do have a fair stock of components (but watch the prices -- \pounds 25.00 for a 6522? I don't think so!) I think Grandata are still going (behind the Wembley Stadium). They're a TV/VCR spares place, and don't stock many general components (I don't think they stock resistors, for example). But they do have a lot of Japanese transistors, etc. What about Circuit Cellar? We get that in Borders in the UK -- I used to buy it, but ratehr gave up when it turned into a thinly disguised advert for the lasted microcontorllers (many of which didn't seem to be the most suitable devices for the application). -tony -------------------------------------------------------- Billy: Thanks for the advice on Cricklewood. I have been in there but not recently. They used to have a nice line of surplus test equipment. And didn't there used to be great place down on the South Coast, Rye or Wye, that had a huge warehouse full of test equipment? I remember I had to hire a car just to get home, there was so much good stuff. Circuit Celler is pretty much as you said - article/ads for small company development boards. Since Steve Ciarca left, it hasn't done much that is fun. Billy