On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:48:10 +0000, kash wrote:

Or you could go to my local RS and talk to the kids who don't
know a carburetor frlom a klystron.

Or you could go to the same store and talk to the retired HP
tech who knows more than any of you.

Your choice.

Not really. Your store is within
reasonable distance of *what* percentage
of usenet readers?

Yeah, I thought so.

There are three RS within reasonable
driving distance of my house. One is
at the mall. I hate malls. So that's
out.

Of the other two, one has two employees
who really try to help, the other has
one. None of them really know much about
electronics. But they're good people,
and they try, and I can always figure out
if they have what I need (IOW, I ran out
of something and I need it now).

One of these stores used to have a
guy who knew something. Presumably the
guys in black body suits from RSHQ hauled
him off in the middle of the night and
shot him. Tell your HP friend to watch
his six.

``You want a 12AX7? It's a what?
A vacuum tube? Is that a type of
cell phone? We have those!''