[Scan-DC] Tyson's Corner Radio Shack

[b_thom@juno.com]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:16:08 -0400 (EDT) Justin D Osborn
<jdosborn@wam.umd.edu> writes:

> Yeah, I've been in the one next to Staples (I think) and spoke with 
> a guy
> who knew his stuff, I was trying to get a replacement BIOS battery 
> for a
> 486, which they didn't have.  After I showed him the old one, a 4.5 
> V
> alkaline, we figured out that we could just replace it with three 
> AAAs in
> a battery clip.

For future reference, you would have been better off going to the
Microcenter in Vienna, which has oodles of BIOS batteries. It carries the
1/2-AA, 3.6 volt lithium cell that is the backup battery for Macintosh
computers. RS has it too, but for nearly twice the price. CompUSA does
not have them at all.

> In my experience with Radio Shack, it really depends on the store 
> and
> who's working there that day.  Sometimes you get the blank stares

Oh, I'm familiar with the effect. Sometimes, after an RS employee has
said, "no, we don't sell [shortwave radios, scanners, whatever]," you
have to take him or her by the hand, lead him or her to the item, point
it out to him or her, and say, slowly and clearly, "yes, you do."