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VK3DRB:

--- Quote from: wilfred on November 30, 2015, 01:14:01 pm ---Don't lose heart. We're as good, bad, smart and stupid as we always were. Take away the technology and peel back the veneer of civilised society and we revert to type in a heartbeat. Look what happened in New Orleans after the hurricane. It can happen anywhere. And it will.

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The way to test is is to see how people behave when they don't have enough food for their own kids. That was one of the root causes for the The French Revolution.

The real test is if the Internet died instantly. There would be pandemonium as our society has no backup plan to the Internet. Watch how people start acting when they cannot get money, petrol or food. Maybe a whopping solar flare might be the trigger.

A really good example of the such human behaviour is perfectly illustrated in the Twilight Zone episode called The Shelter. It is on the USA Netflix and also here...

http://putlocker.is/watch-the-twilight-zone-tvshow-season-3-episode-3-online-free-putlocker.html
vk3yedotcom:
Another 'end of an era'.

Truscotts, one of the long-term survivors in retail electronics in Melbourne, is closing.

Holding a clearance sale

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/melbourne/search/?callsite=commerce_mktplace_www_hoisted_pdp&hoisted_item=2085409061761933&query=truscotts%20electronics

digsys:

--- Quote from: vk3yedotcom ---Another 'end of an era'.
Truscotts, one of the long-term survivors in retail electronics in Melbourne, is closing. 
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I'm not going to go ! I'm not going to go ! I'm NOT going to go ! ok, fiiine, just going to look only !
wilfred:
I went down there about 5 years ago for the first and last time. I took pictures of the parts drawers in case there was something that I might need someday. They had at that time mostly standard parts suited to magazine projects of the 1980's. eg no microcontrollers.

As I recall it was a bit or a disorganised junkpile. I was amazed someone could run a business like that. I thought that it was something a hoarder might have.

I wouldn't travel far if you do intend to go. But I didn't dig too deep to see what was there. I was afraid of injuring myself.

If anyone goes please post about what you found. What are they selling the semiconductors for? I might need a modem chip.  ;)

Let's hope Rockby stays around a while longer.  I still occasionally go there for a thing or two. Or just to trawl through old stuff in the clearance room.
digsys:
IF I am after older parts for repairs, and I work from home / office in Mt Waverley, I do go to Rockby, as it is just down the road. IF I happen to be in Baywswater, then I'd often go to Truscotts .. a similar setup of "older" parts.
Admittedly, Rockby has a larger range of useful / consistent stuff, but Truscotts has a very much wider range of weird stuff !!
Hopeless if you were after several types of ICs for example, as it was pure hit+miss as to which ones they had. Definitely some weird stuff there though :-)
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