On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:58:49 +0100, "Gazz" wrote:


I recall back at the turn of the century going into nottingham maplins after
a transistor equivalent, bloke didnt even need to look it up in the book and
got me a few that worked,
Don't think they have had the books for years, and most of the bods working
there nowadays don't know what a transistor is.

Conrad also have a superb range of discrete electonic components of
all sorts for people who like to build their own circuits; very
impressive how they can afford to hold all that stock. Puts Maplin to
shame.