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    Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 7:43am
Originally posted by GlueGuy

Out here we have a place called Fry's. They used to be a grocery store, then they morphed. One aisle is potato chips, the next is computer chips. They have pretty much everything that Radio Shack used to carry, and then some.


True story.

Wish we had them back here. When I get back to my parents place, I always try to make a couple hours room in my schedule to go wander at Fry's over in Natomas...
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Out here we have a place called Fry's. They used to be a grocery store, then they morphed. One aisle is potato chips, the next is computer chips. They have pretty much everything that Radio Shack used to carry, and then some.
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Yeah, so now I decide to learn myself building small electronic circuits. I got my breadboards, a box full of resistors, ordered a few capacitors and even some LM317 voltage regulators. I can do a littler soldering and know how to use a multimeter. I can even read a basic schematic. Fun stuff for an old fart! 

Problem is...I'm an old rookie and sometimes I need just the right capacitor or wire or solder or pot or LED and I don't want to order ten and I want it now because, at my age, if I have to wait for mail order I will forget what I needed it for! Guy at Home Depot laughed at me when I asked where I could find some 22 gauge solid core wire so I could make my own breadboard jumpers. "You need to scale up your projects", he said.

I miss Radio Shack!

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