On Wed, 12 Jul 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 1995 11:59:54 +0100, Simon Cooke said: > > You managed to get something as complex as a /resistor/ from Tandys?!!!??!! > > > And did they ask you to explain exactly what a resistor was first? :) > > No - I only had to get them off the shelf and give them to the cashier. > > Though one time when I went in to get a 1.25A fuse for my video the > assistant harrassed me and asked me what I wanted so I said "I need to > replace this; it says `T1.25A' on it" and he gave me a packet that said > "125 mA"...
Yes, I've had similar problems getting things from them. Fortunately my home town of Leeds has a Maplins store, so I save up all the non-urgent repairs/projects until I visit my parents :-) Anyway to change the subject, I've spent the last few days messing around with Pro-Dos. I bought Wordstar cheaply - got massive manual and disk, all still shrink wrapped - Some company had bought up a pile of DEC Rainbows and piles of associated software and was getting rid of it all. Anyway, getting the program onto the SAM was no problem - I used 22disk on one of the college's PCs. The Wordstar program itself works fine, but the installation program was restricted to only allowing configuration for a DEC Rainbow. So I've spent a while with the manual, patching the program by hand. What fun! ====================== Tim Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =======================
