Hello! I agree. The current website refuses to confirm or deny if they plan on reintroducing everything that the previous incarnation carriedl. Someone with common sense and deep pockets needs to buy it away from those boobs, and reboot it properly. Now why did you read and reply to this using a smart device held by a Yeti who only called it to your attention? And who wore his blue work hat today. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature was still fighting the timewars, Time and again." On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 4/11/25 10:47, Kelly Leavitt via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I cried a silent tear at the end of this once great (or at least mostly good) company.
"Gamom, take me to Radio Shack!", I said, as I puzzled over the numbers on the back of the IC package. I was trying to power up my first integrated circuit, a 7400 (quad 2-input NAND gate) which she had purchased for me the day before. I strode up to the counter and asked the man what value of resistor I needed to drop 9V (from a battery) to the 5V required by the IC.
He patiently explained that "it doesn't work that way" and, on the back of a sales receipt, taught me Ohm's Law. He spent quite a bit of time helping me understand it, correcting my erroneous assumptions, patiently working with me until I understood. After a bit of begging (we were poor) my grandmother purchased for me a 7805 voltage regulator.
I was seven years old, living in Browns Mills, NJ.
Fifty years has passed. As a design engineer, I use Ohm's Law every day. He's probably gone now, but I wish I'd caught that very patient Radio Shack salesman's name.
Suits can and will destroy everything. Don't let them into your company.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA