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From: rona@videovax.Tek.COM (Ronald K. Anderson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radio Shack parts, quality of
Message-ID: <5059@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 88 17:04:05 GMT
References: <17492@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <1988@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <17497@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: rona@videovax.Tek.COM (Ronald K. Anderson)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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I'll never forget the first time I designed and built a circuit using
transistors ( a pack of 2N2222A's purchased from RS). I had never examined
a working transistor to that point, so it took a little longer to discover 
that their parts were the culprit. Replacing them with equivalents from an 
electronic junk store fixed my circuit and forever biased my skepticism of 
that outfit. If it wasn't the first time, and if I wasn't trying to learn
something, I don't think it would have bothered me so much.

I still buy stuff from them, but usually when I have no other alternative.