Apropos "You-Blew-It" Electronics, here's a link to those unfamiliar with this Boston institution:
http://www.youdoitelectronics.com/ > Ok I know their prices are significantly higher than mail order from > almost everywhere but why is it You-Blew-It? I dunno exactly. But back when I was a feckless undergrad, that's what everybody called it. The name always gave me the picture of a geek who had assembled a circuit, flipped the power on, and the circuit immediately burned up. Ha ha -- you blew it! At least for me, it did not have the connotation of making a mistake about where you bought your stuff. There was nothing essentially wrong with the place (unlike Radio Shaft), and the moniker "You-Blew-It" was intended solely to be jocular. > While we are a little OT am I the only one who misses the days when > they carried more components and fewer audio video cables. They are > getting to much like radio shack. I agree. What I liked about the place back then was that it was what Radio Shaft should have been: A large store full of components and other stuff important to a real electronics geek. But now it's going the way of Radio Shaft, selling cables and other consumer-oriented junk. To be fair, there remains a largish -- but shrinking -- section of the store which still sells components. But the Radio-Shackification is probably happening because the number of hard-core EE hobbiests is shrinking (the disappearing ham radio segment itself accounts for a large part of that shrinkage), and the folks looking for components now get them via internet search and mail-order from the likes of Digi-Key. You-Blew-It's retail operation remains a good place to go if it's Saturday afternoon, and you've realized that you absolutely need a 10K resistor right now, you can't scrounge one from anywhere in your workshop, and you don't want to wait a week for mail-order. Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
