shit 100% that's nothing. i was a restaurant manager. one time i calculated the t/o at over 600%. that was about the time i quit.
your story is so depressing. every time i go to rs there is a new person.
Latest polite British slang for the above is 'Chesticles' , as reported in a recent article in The Register. Thought you might like to know.
Joe
doesn't rhyme with memories
I was in a local RS today looking at low end cam corders. The sales person was somewhat knowledgable.....
better than nothing,
although the store manager there is nice knowledgable and pleasant. her dads been a manager for like 30 years
some years ago she was a waste.
her dad sent me to her store, she was just a sales person. unfriendly lazy and unhelpful.
later he asked me how it went, i didnt know it was his daughter: ( found out after I told him she was a waste.........
he said thats my daughter:( it was a bad moment, i have known bob forever.
she got yelled at that nite.
must of done some good, she is excellent today
There is absolutely nothing even the slightest bit interesting that can be made using RS parts. They haven't had even a slightely useable stock since the 70's.
RS is OK for toys, cell phone accessories, and batteries, and little else.
Ah. The joy of buying packard bell ar hewlett packard prices.
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I wish I could go SOMEWHERE for advice, like you used to be able to. I wanted to find out about using a TV antenna here (for a particular ATSC station). No, calling the station is not OK. It's 35 miles away and I was wanting LOCAL advice.
I used to go to RS for that purpose a lot 20-25 years ago. I would get their catalog every year (no internet access then) and would go in for specific parts (by catalog number). That worked OK, I knew a lot more than most of the sales people did.
Mark Lloyd wrote: ...
For us, that _is_ local... :)
Actually, for the same questions last February when I was in the need to replace the ice-broken antenna, I did call the station and talked to one of their engineers. Along with that I was having a problem w/ a new low-powered station competing with them and he had some useful input--plus, in this particular instance, I think that put the bug in their ear to go after the offender as they seem to have disappeared since...at least, they no longer seem to be broadcasting w/ sufficient power to interfere w/ the alloted channel in the area... :)
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Tandy 1000 series? IIRC, they're compatible with the "PC junior" which wasn't that compatible with the PC.
In one of my computer classes, I remember the teacher saying "We have
3 TRS80's and 3 Apples, which means we have 3 Apples".
And astronomers will call some stars "local".
like our galaxy, mars is our neighbor.
If it were unfounded, I would agree with you.
Back in the days of Iron Men and Wooden Ships, Radio Shack was a godsend for tinkerers. That continued through stero equipment and TRS-80's and then it ended about the time Tandy computers began to decline.
"You have problems. We have answers" has become a joke.
It's become "You have problems. We'll sell you something and hope you don't return it."
Dick
It certainly did when I went to a RS a couple of days ago, wanting advice.
They weren't much help with a 600 PIV rectifier diode when lightning did a number on my TV a few years back. Probably one of the few things in the TV that I would be capable of fixing - TV died after a storm, opened it up, started ohming from the power line coming in, found an open fuse and a shorted rectifier diode. Of course, the kid in the store didn't know what it was, but it wasn't something they stocked anyway - only had about 5 different flavors of rectifier diodes. For anything other than garden-variety resistors and capacitors, I have always done better going to a real electronics parts store like Circuit Specialists - prices are usually much better too.
Jerry
Try asking a TV repairman. (If you can find one)
Bob
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