In article , Nick Gorham
writes
Old Fart at Play wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:


But it must be getting more difficult to
source discreet non surface mount stuff these days.



Ann Summers? Discretion assured!

When I were a lad you could bicycle down to the corner shop
at any hour and buy a BC108 or a 2N3055.


Funny you should say that, when I first got into electronics at the age
of 13 (ish) in 1973, I did have a corner shop in Peterborough, that did
sell such things. Mind you, everything I build from that shop (Torr's
electronics, in Lincon Road PB, the shop and the corner are long gone)
never worked. it was only after I started getting bits from Watford
Electronics via PW, that things started working.

It is a terrible pity that I didn't have the foresight to
buy up a load of valves when they were cheap!


Tell me about it...


We're quite fortunate to still have H Gee's shop at 94 Mill road in
Cambridge. Its amazing what they still supply there, valves even!.....
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Tony Sayer