On 2006-10-30 23:10:48 +0000, John Rumm said:

Clint Sharp wrote:

In message , John
Rumm writes

(Let's face it, they used to supply the whole countries hobbyist market
with a small shop in Westcliff-on-Sea, and a central warehouse - no way
is that market going to support the number of outlets they now have)

No, I agree, but they used to be able to order bits in to the store for
you from a decent range of bits in a warehouse somewhere, nowadays they
don't actually have a range of components, they have a sort of random
splatter which spends more time out of stock than in (or so it seems).
Even the catalogue was useful, worth paying for, now I object to paying
for their marketing material which is of little practical use, so I
don't.

Yup, I still have an old 1995 catalogue on the shelf as it was the last
one to include full pinouts for all the ICs. Surprisingly difficult
information to get these days without hours of web searching and yards
of data books.

Does anybody remember Towers International Transistor Selector?