tools / test gear / components in the US?

[Dave McGuire]

On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>> Out of interest, whereabout in the US is good (mail order) for  
>> getting hold of
>> tools / test gear and components? There's only a Rat Shack in town  
>> here, which
>> as everyone knows is utterly useless for absolutely anything :(
>
> I've only had cause to order from them once, but was quite happy with
> Digikey.  As the quality of local stores seem to be going down,  
> I'll likely
> end up ordering from them again.

   Oddly enough, the confirmation email for my most recent DigiKey  
order came two messages after this one in my mail spool. :)  I order  
from them and from Mouser Electronics with some frequency.  They are  
both top-notch.

> The one downside is the Phonebook sized catalogues they've started  
> sending
> me on apparently a quarterly basis.  I solved the problem quite  
> quickly by
> simply sticking them in the Classic Computing section of the  
> Historical
> Library. :^)

   Both DigiKey's and Mouser's catalogs are available for download as  
PDF files, by the way.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL