[GreenKeys] Radio Shack

[Jim Haynes]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, John Nagle wrote:

>   For a lot of hobbyists, though, Digi-Key isn't friendly
> enough.   For a 100 ohm, low-wattage, through hole resistor
> they offer over 50 products. Radio Shack would have one.
> It would be worse quality than the cheapest offering
> on Digi-Key, but still, Digi-Key is scary if you're
> not an EE or electronics technician.
>
Yeah.  And when I was a youngster it was fun to just read the Allied
catalog: all that variety of stuff!  But today a printed catalog is
much thicker, but filled with a lot of surface mount and other kinds
of parts that the average hobbyist can't imagine using.  So reading
it is pretty boring.