History of bulk electronic components suppliers

Electrovalue's gone too (2005).

I hadn't heard about Watford though. It was only on the 7th it has to be said.

Graham

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The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is a standardized test used here in the U.S.A. for college admissions, has two parts: math and verbal. On either part, 800 is the highest score. I expressed the scores as 800/720, in other words 800 math, 720 verbal.

Aren't those just dumb multiple choice tests of mundane high school level subject matter. There was a time when high school was partitioned into "tracks" like A, B, C, and only the A track was preparing for college studies. Some high schools went so far as to call themselves "preparatory" schools, meaning the whole school was A track. The SAT was originally intended to quantify the level of preparedness of the candidate so that the college admissions office could assess the likelihood of success for the student in their program. All that has been thrown out the window these days. Now it is much more important to make a determination of gender, socioeconomic status, race,and sexual orientation, these are the preeminent considerations for modern higher education where the Bachelor/Bachelorette degree has been reduced to something less than a certificate. I hope you're happy about how much damned damage you have done!!!

Actually they should start calling those things Batchlore degrees in recognition of the mass production aspect...Masters sounds way too much like a male/slave owner type of thing, maybe should call those EOY degrees for Extra One Year, and PhD, hmmmm....

Of course you did, bozo.

It was only sci.electronics.components until you replied. There were about two replies to the actual question, and then "Salmon Egg" replied with his post about chemistry, and you replied to that off-topic post, and tossed in sci.electronics.design: Subject: Re: History of bulk electronic components suppliers From: Salmon Egg Newsgroups: sci.electronics.components Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:57:35 -0800

From: "Homer J Simpson" Newsgroups: sci.electronics.components,sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: History of bulk electronic components suppliers Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:43:37 GMT

Note that the people in .design never even saw the original question because your crossposting reply wasnt about "hey, this is a neat thread, let's see what people can add" it was about making some off-topic reply that will do nothing but mess up the newsgroups.

Michael

Drop in on any good bookstore, during normal hours or for an author's reading. You'll find lots of people who enjoy reading. On cable TV here, we have a book channel that spends most of its time discussion, well, books. The Sunday paper has a separate book review section. Amazon is one of the few boom-days dot.com survivors.

This town is jammed with bookstores, from big chains like Borders and Barnes&Noble to obscure antiquarian and specialty shops. Stacey's is the high-end scientific and professional store, on Market Street. The one just down the hill from us, across from the public library, has book readings and nighttime jazz sessions.

Powell's in Seattle is a pilgrimage. I always allow an extra day when I'm up there, just to hang out in the main store, a full city block, or the science/engineering annex around the corner. Last time, I was looking for the Patrick O'Brian books and couldn't fine them in Fiction. That bummed me out - how the hell could they skip those? - when somebody lead me to a room full of seafaring books.

Opamp Bookstore in LA is pretty good. Silicon Valley is mostly disappointing, as bookstores go. I did go into a used technical book store in Cambridge (MA) just a few blocks from MIT, and asked about RadLab books. They'd never heard of them.

John

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My post, about a dozen up in the stack, stated the two scores separately. Shape up, Eeyore!

John

But these are for ppl who already enjoy reading. Maybe in the above I should have used the word promoted. Do you ever see a TV programme presenting reading a novel in a positive light ?

Graham

Radio Shack still sells their limited range but they are less 'enthusiastic' than they once were about it. Of course I still can't figure out why anyone would buy the high end stuff they really want to sell from them, but maybe if they are the only game in town?

Or club a couple dozen baby seals.

John

No problem. What is your address for shipment?

I can't recall such. I don't suspect many regular TV shows would tell their own audiences to turn off the idiot box and pick up a book. The sponsors wouldn't like that.

You have a good point: you almost never see people reading, or buying books, or even writing, on regular TV shows. You do see people driving, smoking, driving, playing video games, driving, watching TV, and driving.

But if some people enjoy being stupefied by the absurd crap on TV...

John

I didn't. I claimed that the US has failed every one of it's 'wars' such as those on poverty, drugs, terrorism, children left behind and many more, but the unannounced war on intelligence and knowledge is proceeding well as shown by the influence of the ID crackpots and by it's know-nothing-and-proud-of-it president.

At least 2% of Americans are very intelligent. However the other 98% are as dumb as rocks as you well know.

The list of Canadian Nobel laureates since the prize was first awarded includes:

1999 Economics Robert Mundell, a native of Kingston, Ont., earned the prize for his analysis of exchange rates and how they affect monetary policies. The theories of Mundell, a professor at Columbia University in New York, helped create a common currency for the European Union. Mundell did his most important work in the 1960s. 1997 Economics Myron Scholes, born in Timmins, Ont., was co-winner of the prize for devising a formula for pricing derivatives such as stock options. A U.S. citizen and professor emeritus at Stanford University in California, Scholes shared the prize with Harvard professor Robert Merton. Scholes received his undergraduate degree in economics from McMaster University in 1962 and an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1990. He earned a PhD in economics at the University of Chicago in 1969. 1996 Economics William S. Vickrey was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1914. His elementary and secondary education were in Europe and the United States, with graduation from Phillips Andover Academy in 1931. He received a B.S. in mathematics from Yale in 1935, followed by graduate work in economics at Columbia University from 1935 to 1937, when he received the M.A. degree. He then worked for the National Resources Planning Board in Washington and the Division of Tax Research in the U.S. Treasury Department. 1994 Physics Bertram Brockhouse, of McMaster University in Hamilton shared the prize with Clifford Shull, 79, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of matter. The scientists made their contributions at the first nuclear reactors in Canada and the United States in the 1940s and '50s. Nobel Prize winning Canadian physicist Dr. Bertram Brockhouse has died at 85, on october 2003. 1993 Chemistry Michael Smith, a British-born Canadian citizen, and Kary Mullis of the United States. Smith, director of the Biotechnology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, won for his work on a method for altering DNA to determine its function. 1992 Chemistry Montreal-born Rudolph Marcus, a U.S. citizen, for his contributions to the theory of how sub-atomic particles known as electrons are transferred between molecules. Educated at McGill University, a professor at California Institute of Technology when he received prize. 1990 Physics Richard Taylor, a native of Medicine Hat, Alta., living in Palo Alto, Calif., with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall of the United States, for finding the first evidence of quarks, now believed to be basic building blocks of matter. 1989 Chemistry Yale University professor Sidney Altman, a U.S. citizen from Montreal, for the discovery of catalytic properties of the genetic material RNA. Shared the prize with Thomas Cech, University of Colorado. 1986 Chemistry German-born John Polanyi of the University of Toronto, for showing how basic chemical reactions take place. Shared prize with Americans Dudley Herschbach and Yuan Lee. 1983 Chemistry Saskatoon-born Henry Taub, for studies in the transfer of electrons in metals. Graduated from University of Saskatchewan, on staff of Stanford University in California when received prize. 1981 Physics University of Toronto PhD Arthur Schawlow for development of spectroscopes, basic tools for studying atomic structure. Shared with fellow U.S. citizen Nicolass Boembergen and Kai Siegbahn of Sweden. 1981 Medicine Dr. David Hubel, a native of Niagara Falls, Ont., for information processing in the visual system. Graduated from McGill University in Montreal before continuing his career in the United States. 1976 Literature Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago, received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. 1971 Chemistry German-born Gerhard Herzberg for work with ''free radicals'' - molecular fragments which take part in chemical reactions. Taught at University of Saskatchewan 1935-45, went to United States, returned 1948 to National Research Council in Ottawa. 1966 Medicine Charles Brenton Huggins, a Halifax native, graduate of Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., head of Ben May Cancer Research Laboratory of the University of Chicago, for research into role of hormones in the control of human cancer. Shared award with Peyton Rous of the Rockefeller University. 1957 Peace Lester B. Pearson, before becoming prime minister, for proposing a United Nations peacekeeping force as a means for easing the British and French out of Egypt. 1949 Chemistry William Giauque, a native of Niagara Falls, Ont., for investigating the properties of matter under extremely low temperatures. 1923 Medicine Sir Frederick Banting and J. R. Macleod, for the development of insulin, used in the treatment of diabetes, at the University of Toronto.

Source: Toronto Star, October 13, 1999.

Amazing how many Canadian Nobelists have left Canada for the US.

Of course the US is wild, raunchy, crude, and dangerous. It has always attracted the most intelligent, creative, rebelious, restless, and unmanagable people from the whole world. You deplore this, but I think of it as a public service to humanity.

Why do you think Westerns are so popular?

John

Not true. Encouraging people to use 555's should be a misdemeanour, but there are (rare) situations where the the 555 could be the right solution. I've not run into one in thirty years of design work, but I suppose there must be a few applications where it is still the right choice.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I'm just about to try syncing 3 little smps together. Of course the

555 was the first thing that came into my head as a master clock, say 80K, what would you suggest?

I'm certainly not going to use a PIC

martin

The 74121 and 74221 both produce more stable delays than the 555, with less jitter.

I'd be more likely to stick a crystal oscillator onto a PLD.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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"Reading Rainbow":

It seems like every time there's a book on a sitcom, it's some kind of McGuffin - i.e., it or its use becomes the core gag for the show, typically a kid that can't do their homework, or the wife joins a book club and wants to drag her hubby to it.

Thanks, Rich