I hate Radio Shack

From: R. D. Davis <rdd_at_rddavis.org>
Date: Tue Jun 11 21:57:15 2002

Quothe Gene Buckle, from writings of Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 07:24:38AM -0700:
> he went into RS looking for a GaSFET and was promptly told that he might
> have better luck in an auto parts store.

Back when I was in high school, when a 1 farad capacitor would have
been, physically, huge (probably about the size of an RS store, or
something like that), one could telephone a RS store and ask for a 100
farad, 1KV, capacitor and the sales clerk would say "I'll check to see
if we have any."

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