micktravis

I build a lot of electronics stuff as a hobby and when I was a kid (the 1970s) I would spend most of my money at RS. The local store had an electronics guru who could explain to me how a rectifier worked, or which brand of capacitor was the best buy. Now nobody in the stores knows anything about any of the stuff in the little drawers, and pretty much the only drawers they keep stocked are the ones for RCA plugs. I pretty much stopped going to RS years ago once everything became available on the net. And reading this thread I'll never darken their doorway again. Which is a shame because I spend thousands of dollars a year on electronics crap.

I hope someone from RS is reading this. Radio controlled vehicles and cellphones have turned your stores into shit smears.

Erudite means being knowledgeable or learned. Not polite.

Yup. I remember when I was quite young I wanted to build a telegraph to my friend's place - we had learned about morse code in school. And this guy at RS sat me down and explained how a simple relay worked and talked me through what I would need to run a low voltage setup down the street. It took a while but I got it working. Today someone would just offer to sell me a walkie talkie.

Where did you come up with the idea for Purple Rain?