Portland Oregon .. the Black Hole of technology On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Chuck Hast <wch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was over in Honolulu abt this time last year, needed some parts was > directed to a place not too far from the seafood plant where I was, walked > in and found one of those type of emporiums. Had some in the Tampa Bay area > and Orlando (cape surplus stuff) sure miss that. > > On Aug 13, 2017 13:57, "Rich Shepard" <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, Edward Koenig wrote: > > > > > I really do miss the days browsing the local shops for part to build my > > > own boxes. > > > > When I had my ham radio license and built my own transmitters and > > receivers I used to go down to Canal St (NYC) and rummage in the bins for > > the resistors, capacitors, switches, vacuum tubes, etc. I needed. No > > blister > > packs; buy only what you need. Those days are gone. To a large extent, I > > miss them. > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
