[sdiy] Hmmm...OK NOW you can panic :(

[Gene Stopp]

Hi Magnus,

It's not usually worth traveling 4 miles to go to Fry's, let alone 9
timezones! Fry's is not so much an electronics store as a showcase for human
folly. Another hint is to plan in advance so that any purchase you make
could not possibly end you up in the returns line - that would truly be
horrible.

I usually end up there like this: say there is a part that I know I can get
online by just moving my fingers, for a good price, that will drop into my
lap as I sit at my desk a few days later. But that's not good enough - I
need it now! My emotions take over! I walk out of a huge city-block-sized
building, after an hour and a half, with a single sawtooth discharge FET in
my hand.

- Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Danielson [mailto:cfmd at bredband.net]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 4:14 PM
To: gene at ixiacom.com
Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Hmmm...OK NOW you can panic :(


From: Gene Stopp <gene at ixiacom.com>
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Hmmm...OK NOW you can panic :(
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:07:24 -0700
Message-ID: <BCD0C6AAF20CEA41903A1284F549D6170B53A3 at ixca-ex1.ixiacom.com>

Gene,

> The Fry's where I go has a whole aisle of NTE and no reference book in
> sight!!!! Grrrrrrrr.... the moral to the story is find your NTE number in
> advance I guess. Especially before committing yourself to that
> parking/finding/asking/checkout nightmare we call Fry's. :)

Fry's is the place you go when you just fried something up and need a quick
AND
dirty solution... or that's at least what we used to joke about.

I wish I could make a raid to Fry's in order to build myself a pair of new
computers. Unfortunately the closest one I know of is 9 timezones away! :P

Cheers,
Magnus

> - Gene
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Tim Parkhurst
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 3:58 PM
> To: 'Metrophage'; Craig Critchley
> Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Hmmm...OK NOW you can panic :(
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Metrophage [mailto:c0r3dump23 at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 3:33 PM
> > To: Craig Critchley
> > Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> > Subject: RE: [sdiy] Hmmm...OK NOW you can panic :(
> > 
> > --- Craig Critchley <craigc at nwlink.com> wrote:
> > > So do NTE replacement ICs suck?
> > 
> > It's PAYING the bucks for NTE parts that sucks, and making sense of
> > decidedly user-unfriendly naming codes. They know that if they used the
> > industry standard names for their parts that it would be perfectly easy
> > for people to buy the parts from other sources for a fraction of the
> > price!
> > 
> 
> This is also why Fry's stocks NTE parts. At least they keep a NTE catalog
> with a part # cross reference on the same shelf. Basically, I get the
parts
> there when nobody else is open. Sometimes handy late on a Wednesday night!
> 
> 
> Tim (night owl with a soldering iron) Servo
>