> OTOH, if you're the sort of person who knows when he wants a 20 ohm 
> resistor you probably won't need any help locating it in Maplin.

Yeh, I used to love Maplins.  I could just show up and buy an IC, a few 
resistors and capacitors and go home and make something.  Or get that right 
combination of plugs and sockets to make a custom cable for whatever I might 
have been up to at the time.

> It's nice being able to buy that sort of stuff in a high street shop 
> though. Sometimes you don't want a brand new 20 quid scart lead, just the 
> connector at one end because you bent the pin or whatever.

OTOH, I remember trying to solder on to a 15-pin VGA plug, and I kept 
melting the plastic housing that held the pins in place, in the end I Just 
went and bought a 20 quid cable and chopped it in half to get a "ready 
soldered" plug ;-)

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