Hello Doug
On 02-Aug-00, you wrote:
> I was just in a Radio Shack to pick up two sets of mono phono plugs
> (earphone,microphone,remote) to build my own Sorcerer dual cassette
> cable. Now I remembered that on cassette recorders, the earphone
> and the microphone plug are the same size and the remote is smaller.
> But I couldn't remember the sizes, so since the saleman was in my face
> to help, I ask if he could show me a cassette recorder. I wanted to
> compare the size of the jacks to the plugs. He show me several, they
> only had earphone jacks. I said don't you have any cassette recorders?
> It took him a couple of minutes to find one, but it had no remote jack!!!
> All this time, he kept asking "what is it you want to record", and I would
> say "computer data". Ten second seconds later he would ask again.
> In between he would say "Oh, we would not have anything like that!"
> Again I scolded myself for going to Radio Shack without knowing exactly
> what I wanted.
>
> So if you have a cassette recorder with a remote jack, hang on to it,
> "it's a good thing".
> --Doug
Typical Radio Shack salesman, overworked at minimum wage and minimum
intellegence about electronics. I was in a Radio Shack twice recent'y, and
they can't even tell you prices of some of the stuff on the shelves.
Here in St. Joseph we call them the trash shack or the outhouse, because
they are usually out of what you want.
Regards
--
Gary Hildebrand
ghldbrd_at_ccp.com
Received on Thu Aug 03 2000 - 00:02:27 BST