Re: FW: The demise of Maplin

["Neil F" <automated@xxxxxxx>]

There was also 'Magenta Electronics' & 'Greenweld'....They gone too?

Have to agree with all comments made about Maplin...Does anyone remember
the
'spacey' disco light filters that Maplin used to do c1979 ?? Some saucy
ones
i seem to remember! (Hey! I was 12 year old boy :-) )
Anyone got any old 'Hobby Electronics' mags? I'd love a scan of the cover
of
one for noststalgia sake...the only one I remember had a grandfather clock
on it with a seven segment LED display.

Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "steve" <steve@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] FW: The demise of Maplin


> Do Watford Electronics still do components ?
>
> And there was one something like Electrovalue ?
>
> This is going back 15-20 years.
>
> Steve.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 12:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] FW: The demise of Maplin
>
>
> > Well said Keith.
> >
> > I used to work for Maplin, my first job when I left uni was as
Technical
> > Sales in the Glasgow store.
> >
> > I remember being quizzed on electronics knowledge every few
weeks, when
> one
> > of the senior guys from Wombley would come up and put us through
our
> paces.
> >
> > The other day, when buying bits for modding my 110V Modules, I
made the
> > mistake of asking for some help (I also find the newest catalog a
bitch
to
> > navigate, and I used to know the thing page by page back to
front!)
> >
> > "Hi, I need a 240V rated MOV"
> >
> > >blank look
> >
> > "a Metal Oxide Varistor"
> >
> > >blank look
> >
> > "It's for surge protection, a voltage dependant
resistor?"
> >
> > >"We do plugs with surge protectors built in"
> >
> > "yeah, but I just need the component itself."
> >
> > >"oh, I don't think we would do that..."
> >
> > Grrrrrr.
> > Thing is, who is left? are Cirkit still trading? Bull Electrical
was
never
> > that great, and seems to be hawking everything under the sun
these
days...
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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