On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Dave wrote: >It is interesting how things change. Way back in early 70's there was a >Hamilton Avnet office not far from my parents house. Being a kid >interested in electronics I would literally ride my bike to the Hamilton >Avnet office and order parts and pay cash for them. > >They would give me any catalog that I had an interest in. They really >tried to help me out even though I probably never spent more than $20 at >a time with them. (Big bucks in the early 70's). I remember having a >hard time strapping all of the catalogs onto my bike rack and making it >back home with my components in a little bag. I had "feet" of >electronics catalogs stacked up in my room. > >Dave > >On 3/2/2010 12:57 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: >> Andy: >> >> Before anyone makes too much of my email, I haven't tried to buy >> anything from Avnet since I retired from a federal R&D lab, so it's >> entirely possible that it is still arrogant toward hobbyists and small >> businesses. Hope it works out for you. >> >> Regards, >> Kent
Not Hamilton-Avnet, but Gifford-Brown, in Des Moines IA, were the same way with me. I rode my bicycle the about 30 miles, from north of Redfield IA. to their store on Walnut St, near downtown Des Moines, and back to get whatever I needed to fix whatever radio or tv I was working on at the time. Often less than a fiver at a time. Catalogs were my parts warehouse in '48, I was 14 yo then. The bike? A Schwinn cycle-truck, a std 26" rear wheel, 14" front wheel rig with a frame mounted wire basket over the front wheel for whatever. Fuggly but practical. It sure wasn't a girl magnet. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "Nine years of ballet, asshole." -- Shelly Long, to the bad guy after making a jump over a gorge that he couldn't quite, in "Outrageous Fortune" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
