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On 10/17/17 8:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/17/2017 7:51 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/17/17 7:12 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/16/2017 11:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:04:39 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: ... is causing the brick and mortar stores to close their doors. I needed a HDMI coupler to extend a HDMI cable.* Went on Amazon and they had several, some for under $2.* I opted for one that was a little more expensive at $3.45 because it had gold plated contacts.* Submitted the order and it will be here in two days. Then, I happened to be out running an errand and stopped in at a Best Buy, deciding that since the couplers are so cheap, I'll pick one up there so I could finish the project I am working on today rather than having to wait for two days. Found the coupler but the package had no price on it.* Took it up to the register thinking it was probably 5 or 6 bucks, tops. Girl scans it and the price was $29.09. I told her that must be a mistake, so she manually entered the number on the package.* Yup.* $29.09. Told her I changed my mind.* I'll wait until Wednesday.* That's absurd. Those electronics stores are all living on life support. Ebay has become the new Radio Shack except much better, even when Radio Shack actually sold electronics parts. If you want small lots of components (anything from resistors to ICs) check out Ebay. They are buying this stuff in big lots and breaking it up into small lots. Since most of this stuff will ship with a 1st class stamp, shipping is free and fast. Before they finally closed their doors for good I occasionally visited Radio Shack to pick up some electronic components for a guitar amp or something I was repairing.* The selection of components rated for vacuum tube devices was pretty bare and what they had you could tell had been there for a long time.* Hard to even find a resistor in anything more than an eighth watt. What? The RS on Crown Street in New Haven is closed?**  I used to get all my little electronics kits and parts there, out of the bins. I just looked up the list of remaining Radio Shack stores that are open. *As of May 31, 2017 only 70 company owned stores remain.* None listed as open in CT although there may be some that are privately owned franchises that are still open. They do have an online sales only that remains in operation. At one time there were over 7300 stores nationwide.* The founders started it to support Ham Radio enthusiasts in the 20's.* The original Radio Shack was in downtown Boston and I visited that store with my dad back in the 1950's when "HiFi" was beginning to become popular.* The two founders (brothers) eventually sold Radio Shack to the Tandy Corporation but is now owned by General Wireless. We have a local franchise store that is still open, but it has never been what I would call a really successful retail operation. The old Radio Shack in downtown New Haven was a real magnet for kids fooling around with building stuff from scratch and from kits. I bought an amp to take to college, and a pair of speaker kits in the early 1960s. |
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Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 10/17/17 8:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/17/2017 7:51 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/17/17 7:12 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/16/2017 11:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:04:39 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: ... is causing the brick and mortar stores to close their doors. I needed a HDMI coupler to extend a HDMI cable. Went on Amazon and they had several, some for under $2. I opted for one that was a little more expensive at $3.45 because it had gold plated contacts. Submitted the order and it will be here in two days. Then, I happened to be out running an errand and stopped in at a Best Buy, deciding that since the couplers are so cheap, I'll pick one up there so I could finish the project I am working on today rather than having to wait for two days. Found the coupler but the package had no price on it. Took it up to the register thinking it was probably 5 or 6 bucks, tops. Girl scans it and the price was $29.09. I told her that must be a mistake, so she manually entered the number on the package. Yup. $29.09. Told her I changed my mind. I'll wait until Wednesday. That's absurd. Those electronics stores are all living on life support. Ebay has become the new Radio Shack except much better, even when Radio Shack actually sold electronics parts. If you want small lots of components (anything from resistors to ICs) check out Ebay. They are buying this stuff in big lots and breaking it up into small lots. Since most of this stuff will ship with a 1st class stamp, shipping is free and fast. Before they finally closed their doors for good I occasionally visited Radio Shack to pick up some electronic components for a guitar amp or something I was repairing. The selection of components rated for vacuum tube devices was pretty bare and what they had you could tell had been there for a long time. Hard to even find a resistor in anything more than an eighth watt. What? The RS on Crown Street in New Haven is closed? I used to get all my little electronics kits and parts there, out of the bins. I just looked up the list of remaining Radio Shack stores that are open. As of May 31, 2017 only 70 company owned stores remain. None listed as open in CT although there may be some that are privately owned franchises that are still open. They do have an online sales only that remains in operation. At one time there were over 7300 stores nationwide. The founders started it to support Ham Radio enthusiasts in the 20's. The original Radio Shack was in downtown Boston and I visited that store with my dad back in the 1950's when "HiFi" was beginning to become popular. The two founders (brothers) eventually sold Radio Shack to the Tandy Corporation but is now owned by General Wireless. We have a local franchise store that is still open, but it has never been what I would call a really successful retail operation. The old Radio Shack in downtown New Haven was a real magnet for kids fooling around with building stuff from scratch and from kits. I bought an amp to take to college, and a pair of speaker kits in the early 1960s. What on earth did you plan to do with an amp and two speaker kits? Assemble your first megaphone? -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 10/17/17 11:08 AM, justan wrote:
Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 10/17/17 8:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/17/2017 7:51 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/17/17 7:12 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/16/2017 11:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:04:39 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: ... is causing the brick and mortar stores to close their doors. I needed a HDMI coupler to extend a HDMI cable. Went on Amazon and they had several, some for under $2. I opted for one that was a little more expensive at $3.45 because it had gold plated contacts. Submitted the order and it will be here in two days. Then, I happened to be out running an errand and stopped in at a Best Buy, deciding that since the couplers are so cheap, I'll pick one up there so I could finish the project I am working on today rather than having to wait for two days. Found the coupler but the package had no price on it. Took it up to the register thinking it was probably 5 or 6 bucks, tops. Girl scans it and the price was $29.09. I told her that must be a mistake, so she manually entered the number on the package. Yup. $29.09. Told her I changed my mind. I'll wait until Wednesday. That's absurd. Those electronics stores are all living on life support. Ebay has become the new Radio Shack except much better, even when Radio Shack actually sold electronics parts. If you want small lots of components (anything from resistors to ICs) check out Ebay. They are buying this stuff in big lots and breaking it up into small lots. Since most of this stuff will ship with a 1st class stamp, shipping is free and fast. Before they finally closed their doors for good I occasionally visited Radio Shack to pick up some electronic components for a guitar amp or something I was repairing. The selection of components rated for vacuum tube devices was pretty bare and what they had you could tell had been there for a long time. Hard to even find a resistor in anything more than an eighth watt. What? The RS on Crown Street in New Haven is closed? I used to get all my little electronics kits and parts there, out of the bins. I just looked up the list of remaining Radio Shack stores that are open. As of May 31, 2017 only 70 company owned stores remain. None listed as open in CT although there may be some that are privately owned franchises that are still open. They do have an online sales only that remains in operation. At one time there were over 7300 stores nationwide. The founders started it to support Ham Radio enthusiasts in the 20's. The original Radio Shack was in downtown Boston and I visited that store with my dad back in the 1950's when "HiFi" was beginning to become popular. The two founders (brothers) eventually sold Radio Shack to the Tandy Corporation but is now owned by General Wireless. We have a local franchise store that is still open, but it has never been what I would call a really successful retail operation. The old Radio Shack in downtown New Haven was a real magnet for kids fooling around with building stuff from scratch and from kits. I bought an amp to take to college, and a pair of speaker kits in the early 1960s. What on earth did you plan to do with an amp and two speaker kits? Assemble your first megaphone? Made a stereo set on the cheap, **** for brains. |
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:12:57 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 10/16/2017 11:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:04:39 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: ... is causing the brick and mortar stores to close their doors. I needed a HDMI coupler to extend a HDMI cable. Went on Amazon and they had several, some for under $2. I opted for one that was a little more expensive at $3.45 because it had gold plated contacts. Submitted the order and it will be here in two days. Then, I happened to be out running an errand and stopped in at a Best Buy, deciding that since the couplers are so cheap, I'll pick one up there so I could finish the project I am working on today rather than having to wait for two days. Found the coupler but the package had no price on it. Took it up to the register thinking it was probably 5 or 6 bucks, tops. Girl scans it and the price was $29.09. I told her that must be a mistake, so she manually entered the number on the package. Yup. $29.09. Told her I changed my mind. I'll wait until Wednesday. That's absurd. Those electronics stores are all living on life support. Ebay has become the new Radio Shack except much better, even when Radio Shack actually sold electronics parts. If you want small lots of components (anything from resistors to ICs) check out Ebay. They are buying this stuff in big lots and breaking it up into small lots. Since most of this stuff will ship with a 1st class stamp, shipping is free and fast. Before they finally closed their doors for good I occasionally visited Radio Shack to pick up some electronic components for a guitar amp or something I was repairing. The selection of components rated for vacuum tube devices was pretty bare and what they had you could tell had been there for a long time. Hard to even find a resistor in anything more than an eighth watt. Radio Shack sucked for getting components by the 80s. Fortunately we had one real electronics store here until around 96-97 that served the hams and what few electronics repair guys who were still around but it was on life support for years before it closed and pretty expensive. If I could wait, I used MCM. (and still do on some stuff). Now I look at Ebay first. My collection of common components like resistors capacitors and general use transistors is actually growing again since the Ebay guys usually sell in lots of at least 10 for pennies a unit. One thing I have built a lot of recently is a LM317 based pass regulator in 3VDC, trying to eliminate a bunch of AA battery use for things that don't really move. The 5v stuff is easy. The good old LM309K is still around for about a dime each. I am starting to think Edison may have been on to something with his DC power distribution but these days it would be 12v and 5v, using the 5.5mm coax and USB A socket. Unfortunately in a whole house system you might need 10 or 8 ga wire to keep the voltage drop reasonable. Even then you would want the power supply centrally located and star wired from there. Then the question is whether one big switcher supply is more efficient than few dozen wall warts plugged in around the house that are unused most of the time. That might be another "science fair" project for me, comparing a bunch of wall warts to a PC supply, unloaded and loaded with a given load. A "Kill a watt" would be the right tool I suppose. |
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On 10/17/2017 10:46 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/17/17 8:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/17/2017 7:51 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/17/17 7:12 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/16/2017 11:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:04:39 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: ... is causing the brick and mortar stores to close their doors. I needed a HDMI coupler to extend a HDMI cable.* Went on Amazon and they had several, some for under $2.* I opted for one that was a little more expensive at $3.45 because it had gold plated contacts.* Submitted the order and it will be here in two days. Then, I happened to be out running an errand and stopped in at a Best Buy, deciding that since the couplers are so cheap, I'll pick one up there so I could finish the project I am working on today rather than having to wait for two days. Found the coupler but the package had no price on it.* Took it up to the register thinking it was probably 5 or 6 bucks, tops. Girl scans it and the price was $29.09. I told her that must be a mistake, so she manually entered the number on the package.* Yup.* $29.09. Told her I changed my mind.* I'll wait until Wednesday.* That's absurd. Those electronics stores are all living on life support. Ebay has become the new Radio Shack except much better, even when Radio Shack actually sold electronics parts. If you want small lots of components (anything from resistors to ICs) check out Ebay. They are buying this stuff in big lots and breaking it up into small lots. Since most of this stuff will ship with a 1st class stamp, shipping is free and fast. Before they finally closed their doors for good I occasionally visited Radio Shack to pick up some electronic components for a guitar amp or something I was repairing.* The selection of components rated for vacuum tube devices was pretty bare and what they had you could tell had been there for a long time.* Hard to even find a resistor in anything more than an eighth watt. What? The RS on Crown Street in New Haven is closed?** I used to get all my little electronics kits and parts there, out of the bins. I just looked up the list of remaining Radio Shack stores that are open. **As of May 31, 2017 only 70 company owned stores remain.* None listed as open in CT although there may be some that are privately owned franchises that are still open. They do have an online sales only that remains in operation. At one time there were over 7300 stores nationwide.* The founders started it to support Ham Radio enthusiasts in the 20's.* The original Radio Shack was in downtown Boston and I visited that store with my dad back in the 1950's when "HiFi" was beginning to become popular. The two founders (brothers) eventually sold Radio Shack to the Tandy Corporation but is now owned by General Wireless. We have a local franchise store that is still open, but it has never been what I would call a really successful retail operation. The old Radio Shack in downtown New Haven was a real magnet for kids fooling around with building stuff from scratch and from kits. I bought an amp to take to college, and a pair of speaker kits in the early 1960s. We have a place on the north shore (Needham) called “You-Do-It” Electronics Center. As Radio Shack declined, it became the go-to place for electronic components for both hobbyists and for businesses. It's a bit of a drive for me from the south shore and I haven't been there for a long time. As a kid you could usually find me at Radio Shack in New Haven or at Lafayette Radio. There was a Lafayette on the north side of the West Rock Tunnel on the Wilbur Cross Parkway. I recently heard that the tunnel was renamed, "Hero's Tunnel" a few years ago. |
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On 10/17/2017 11:24 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:12:57 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/16/2017 11:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:04:39 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: ... is causing the brick and mortar stores to close their doors. I needed a HDMI coupler to extend a HDMI cable. Went on Amazon and they had several, some for under $2. I opted for one that was a little more expensive at $3.45 because it had gold plated contacts. Submitted the order and it will be here in two days. Then, I happened to be out running an errand and stopped in at a Best Buy, deciding that since the couplers are so cheap, I'll pick one up there so I could finish the project I am working on today rather than having to wait for two days. Found the coupler but the package had no price on it. Took it up to the register thinking it was probably 5 or 6 bucks, tops. Girl scans it and the price was $29.09. I told her that must be a mistake, so she manually entered the number on the package. Yup. $29.09. Told her I changed my mind. I'll wait until Wednesday. That's absurd. Those electronics stores are all living on life support. Ebay has become the new Radio Shack except much better, even when Radio Shack actually sold electronics parts. If you want small lots of components (anything from resistors to ICs) check out Ebay. They are buying this stuff in big lots and breaking it up into small lots. Since most of this stuff will ship with a 1st class stamp, shipping is free and fast. Before they finally closed their doors for good I occasionally visited Radio Shack to pick up some electronic components for a guitar amp or something I was repairing. The selection of components rated for vacuum tube devices was pretty bare and what they had you could tell had been there for a long time. Hard to even find a resistor in anything more than an eighth watt. Radio Shack sucked for getting components by the 80s. Fortunately we had one real electronics store here until around 96-97 that served the hams and what few electronics repair guys who were still around but it was on life support for years before it closed and pretty expensive. If I could wait, I used MCM. (and still do on some stuff). Now I look at Ebay first. My collection of common components like resistors capacitors and general use transistors is actually growing again since the Ebay guys usually sell in lots of at least 10 for pennies a unit. One thing I have built a lot of recently is a LM317 based pass regulator in 3VDC, trying to eliminate a bunch of AA battery use for things that don't really move. The 5v stuff is easy. The good old LM309K is still around for about a dime each. I am starting to think Edison may have been on to something with his DC power distribution but these days it would be 12v and 5v, using the 5.5mm coax and USB A socket. Unfortunately in a whole house system you might need 10 or 8 ga wire to keep the voltage drop reasonable. Even then you would want the power supply centrally located and star wired from there. Then the question is whether one big switcher supply is more efficient than few dozen wall warts plugged in around the house that are unused most of the time. That might be another "science fair" project for me, comparing a bunch of wall warts to a PC supply, unloaded and loaded with a given load. A "Kill a watt" would be the right tool I suppose. I bought a "Kill-a-watt" a few years ago and use it often. Great tool. |
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Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 10/17/17 11:08 AM, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 10/17/17 8:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/17/2017 7:51 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/17/17 7:12 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/16/2017 11:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:04:39 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: ... is causing the brick and mortar stores to close their doors. I needed a HDMI coupler to extend a HDMI cable. Went on Amazon and they had several, some for under $2. I opted for one that was a little more expensive at $3.45 because it had gold plated contacts. Submitted the order and it will be here in two days. Then, I happened to be out running an errand and stopped in at a Best Buy, deciding that since the couplers are so cheap, I'll pick one up there so I could finish the project I am working on today rather than having to wait for two days. Found the coupler but the package had no price on it. Took it up to the register thinking it was probably 5 or 6 bucks, tops. Girl scans it and the price was $29.09. I told her that must be a mistake, so she manually entered the number on the package. Yup. $29.09. Told her I changed my mind. I'll wait until Wednesday. That's absurd. Those electronics stores are all living on life support. Ebay has become the new Radio Shack except much better, even when Radio Shack actually sold electronics parts. If you want small lots of components (anything from resistors to ICs) check out Ebay. They are buying this stuff in big lots and breaking it up into small lots. Since most of this stuff will ship with a 1st class stamp, shipping is free and fast. Before they finally closed their doors for good I occasionally visited Radio Shack to pick up some electronic components for a guitar amp or something I was repairing. The selection of components rated for vacuum tube devices was pretty bare and what they had you could tell had been there for a long time. Hard to even find a resistor in anything more than an eighth watt. What? The RS on Crown Street in New Haven is closed? I used to get all my little electronics kits and parts there, out of the bins. I just looked up the list of remaining Radio Shack stores that are open. As of May 31, 2017 only 70 company owned stores remain. None listed as open in CT although there may be some that are privately owned franchises that are still open. They do have an online sales only that remains in operation. At one time there were over 7300 stores nationwide. The founders started it to support Ham Radio enthusiasts in the 20's. The original Radio Shack was in downtown Boston and I visited that store with my dad back in the 1950's when "HiFi" was beginning to become popular. The two founders (brothers) eventually sold Radio Shack to the Tandy Corporation but is now owned by General Wireless. We have a local franchise store that is still open, but it has never been what I would call a really successful retail operation. The old Radio Shack in downtown New Haven was a real magnet for kids fooling around with building stuff from scratch and from kits. I bought an amp to take to college, and a pair of speaker kits in the early 1960s. What on earth did you plan to do with an amp and two speaker kits? Assemble your first megaphone? Made a stereo set on the cheap, **** for brains. Bet you had to call 911 to get someone to put it together. We got a guy like you in the neighborhood. He can't do anything but brag about when he was an airline pilot. He's useless around the house. -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 10/17/2017 10:46 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/17/17 8:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/17/2017 7:51 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 10/17/17 7:12 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/16/2017 11:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:04:39 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: ... is causing the brick and mortar stores to close their doors. I needed a HDMI coupler to extend a HDMI cable. Went on Amazon and they had several, some for under $2. I opted for one that was a little more expensive at $3.45 because it had gold plated contacts. Submitted the order and it will be here in two days. Then, I happened to be out running an errand and stopped in at a Best Buy, deciding that since the couplers are so cheap, I'll pick one up there so I could finish the project I am working on today rather than having to wait for two days. Found the coupler but the package had no price on it. Took it up to the register thinking it was probably 5 or 6 bucks, tops. Girl scans it and the price was $29.09. I told her that must be a mistake, so she manually entered the number on the package. Yup. $29.09. Told her I changed my mind. I'll wait until Wednesday. That's absurd. Those electronics stores are all living on life support. Ebay has become the new Radio Shack except much better, even when Radio Shack actually sold electronics parts. If you want small lots of components (anything from resistors to ICs) check out Ebay. They are buying this stuff in big lots and breaking it up into small lots. Since most of this stuff will ship with a 1st class stamp, shipping is free and fast. Before they finally closed their doors for good I occasionally visited Radio Shack to pick up some electronic components for a guitar amp or something I was repairing. The selection of components rated for vacuum tube devices was pretty bare and what they had you could tell had been there for a long time. Hard to even find a resistor in anything more than an eighth watt. What? The RS on Crown Street in New Haven is closed? I used to get all my little electronics kits and parts there, out of the bins. I just looked up the list of remaining Radio Shack stores that are open. As of May 31, 2017 only 70 company owned stores remain. None listed as open in CT although there may be some that are privately owned franchises that are still open. They do have an online sales only that remains in operation. At one time there were over 7300 stores nationwide. The founders started it to support Ham Radio enthusiasts in the 20's. The original Radio Shack was in downtown Boston and I visited that store with my dad back in the 1950's when "HiFi" was beginning to become popular. The two founders (brothers) eventually sold Radio Shack to the Tandy Corporation but is now owned by General Wireless. We have a local franchise store that is still open, but it has never been what I would call a really successful retail operation. The old Radio Shack in downtown New Haven was a real magnet for kids fooling around with building stuff from scratch and from kits. I bought an amp to take to college, and a pair of speaker kits in the early 1960s. We have a place on the north shore (Needham) called You-Do-It Electronics Center. As Radio Shack declined, it became the go-to place for electronic components for both hobbyists and for businesses. It's a bit of a drive for me from the south shore and I haven't been there for a long time. As a kid you could usually find me at Radio Shack in New Haven or at Lafayette Radio. There was a Lafayette on the north side of the West Rock Tunnel on the Wilbur Cross Parkway. I recently heard that the tunnel was renamed, "Hero's Tunnel" a few years ago. Finally, a roadway feature named after Harry. Snerk! -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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