In article , "Greg"
wrote:

The final kiss of death for me was when there never was any sales person who
had a clue what a resister or capacitor is, nor the different types of wire
(like RG8U vs. RG59 or 16 AWG stranded vs. solid), etc. The hired help
makes money on commission sales only and push the toys and stereos and
computers and so on. No reason for them to know any basic electronic
components or waste time stocking bits and pieces.

My local ones were a bit better when I was investigating LEDs, but it's
not nearly as good as it was back in the 60's. Then again, I doubt I'll
ever find that building is less expensive than buying -- even with EE
training, I can't keep up with the recent advances since it's not my
primary current subject.


I do like Mouser and Allied Electronics. I go to Mouser for low quality and
low prices when it will suffice, then Allied for better quality. Most of my
buying in the last 5 years has been from Allied.


Is that company in any way connected to the Allied that Radio Shack
merged with back in the 60's? They were THE catalog source back then.

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Jere Lull
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