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Maplin Resurrection?
On 2020-04-10, John Rumm wrote:
On 10/04/2020 09:01, charles wrote: In article , John Rumm wrote: On 09/04/2020 12:53, charles wrote: In article , Steve Walker wrote: On 09/04/2020 12:03, Peter Parry wrote: Electronics Weekly has a report of the re launch of Maplin Electronics (www.maplin.co.uk) as an on-line retailer https://www.electronicsweekly.com/ne...duino-2020-03/ They'll have to make a good job of it and keep the prices down too. When Maplin had become far more expensive than RS and never had more than a few of each item in stock, it had clearly lost its way. Mail order it would have to compete with RS, Farnell (plus their CPC arm), Jaycar, Amazon and Ebay - and, for me at least, RS and CPC have the advantage of trade counters for urgent purchases and Amazon has very quick deliveries. you've missed Rapid Electronics, the only one to be able to produce a fuse holder for fuses about ¼inch* in diameter. RS had spare fuses, but no holders. *I can't be bothered to find the relevant bit of kit to check on the exact size. The original Maplin was basically by post, but thre was a shop in Southend. and don't forget CAShTel :-) and Henry's Radio. and Proops (a lunchtime excursion) CASHTel (Computer Aided Shopping by Telephone) was an early Maplin BBS style service, that you could use to do mail order and other stuff. You used ASCII terminal software and a 2400bps modem or similar. It let you enter order codes and quantities. I quite liked using it at times (even though I only lived a 10 min walk from the shop) since it let you assemble a long order while sat in front of all your notes and documentation etc. And all that without running 1 MB of javascript... |
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Maplin Resurrection?
On 01/05/2020 11:51, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2020-04-10, John Rumm wrote: CASHTel (Computer Aided Shopping by Telephone) was an early Maplin BBS style service, that you could use to do mail order and other stuff. You used ASCII terminal software and a 2400bps modem or similar. It let you enter order codes and quantities. I quite liked using it at times (even though I only lived a 10 min walk from the shop) since it let you assemble a long order while sat in front of all your notes and documentation etc. And all that without running 1 MB of javascript... Just as well, that was probably about the total RAM in the machine[1] at the time, and a few years before the invention of the WWW, HTML etc! [1] Amiga B2000, External Personics V22bis modem. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Maplin Resurrection?
On 01/05/2020 11:51, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2020-04-10, John Rumm wrote: On 10/04/2020 09:01, charles wrote: In article , John Rumm wrote: On 09/04/2020 12:53, charles wrote: In article , Steve Walker wrote: On 09/04/2020 12:03, Peter Parry wrote: Electronics Weekly has a report of the re launch of Maplin Electronics (www.maplin.co.uk) as an on-line retailer https://www.electronicsweekly.com/ne...duino-2020-03/ They'll have to make a good job of it and keep the prices down too. When Maplin had become far more expensive than RS and never had more than a few of each item in stock, it had clearly lost its way. Mail order it would have to compete with RS, Farnell (plus their CPC arm), Jaycar, Amazon and Ebay - and, for me at least, RS and CPC have the advantage of trade counters for urgent purchases and Amazon has very quick deliveries. you've missed Rapid Electronics, the only one to be able to produce a fuse holder for fuses about ¼inch* in diameter. RS had spare fuses, but no holders. *I can't be bothered to find the relevant bit of kit to check on the exact size. The original Maplin was basically by post, but thre was a shop in Southend. and don't forget CAShTel :-) and Henry's Radio. and Proops (a lunchtime excursion) CASHTel (Computer Aided Shopping by Telephone) was an early Maplin BBS style service, that you could use to do mail order and other stuff. You used ASCII terminal software and a 2400bps modem or similar. It let you enter order codes and quantities. I quite liked using it at times (even though I only lived a 10 min walk from the shop) since it let you assemble a long order while sat in front of all your notes and documentation etc. And all that without running 1 MB of javascript... Mike Aldrich always liked to tell people that he invented home shopping using a computer in 1980. The computer was a modified 14 inch rediffusion colour tv with a Z80 SBC and modem kludged ?inside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Aldrich The Redifon site in Crawley was the size of 2 football fields where a hundred or so people made data general nova mini clones with in house software for key-to-disk data entry systems. And I mean made. They made their own CPU boards, memory boards terminal muxes, the lot. They only bought in printers, disks tape drives and hard stuff like casings, boxes etc. All gone by the early 90's after Bill Gates and the IBM PC wiped out their target markets. |
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Maplin Resurrection?
On Friday, 10 April 2020 09:03:02 UTC+1, charles wrote:
In article , John Rumm wrote: On 09/04/2020 12:53, charles wrote: In article , Steve Walker wrote: On 09/04/2020 12:03, Peter Parry wrote: Electronics Weekly has a report of the re launch of Maplin Electronics (www.maplin.co.uk) as an on-line retailer https://www.electronicsweekly.com/ne...duino-2020-03/ They'll have to make a good job of it and keep the prices down too. When Maplin had become far more expensive than RS and never had more than a few of each item in stock, it had clearly lost its way. Mail order it would have to compete with RS, Farnell (plus their CPC arm), Jaycar, Amazon and Ebay - and, for me at least, RS and CPC have the advantage of trade counters for urgent purchases and Amazon has very quick deliveries. you've missed Rapid Electronics, the only one to be able to produce a fuse holder for fuses about å±¥nch* in diameter. RS had spare fuses, but no holders. *I can't be bothered to find the relevant bit of kit to check on the exact size. The original Maplin was basically by post, but thre was a shop in Southend. and don't forget CAShTel :-) and Henry's Radio. and Proops (a lunchtime excursion) Proops & J Bull were always interesting. Loads of stock from Bull is still sitting in huge sheds, including some cars. If I had nothing better to do I'd see them about that. Bull... where else could you get CCA mains cable after it was banned? NT |
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