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Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
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In article , Graeme Wall
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I saw something on ebay yesterday from Henry's Electronics in
Edgeware. I presume this is the old Henry's Radio which advertised
in all the mags fifty years ago. I wonder what happened to the
other shops we got our transistors from!


Maplin and Tandy came :-(

Noticed that Maplin charge 36p for one resistor that I pay 1.20 for 100
elsewhere. ;-)

Unfortunately I ceased using Maplin as a result of their policy wrt
catalogues.

CPC say when a new catalogue is available, and send me a copy
automatically, no charge.

Maplin charge for their catalogue. They also failed to tell me when a new
one was available. Left to me to keep checking and then order/pay for one
and wait for it.

I doubt Maplin have much to interest you these days anyway. And even then,
their prices are so high I'd have to be desperate to buy from them. Sad
really, as at one time I bought pretty well all electronic stuff from
them. Free next day postage if the shop was out of stock. And so on. How
the mighty have fallen. ;-)

Since I only order at irregular intervals, I simply kept finding I
didn't have an up-to-date Maplin catalogue. It was then far easier to
buy from CPC than pay and wait for one.

Yes, I know about and use the websites. But I find a catalogue useful as
my starting point.

Know what you mean. But much of that seems to be down to poor search
engines in both RS and CPC's websites.

Jim

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*Pentium wise, pen and paper foolish *

Dave Plowman London SW
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