[geeks] RS232 passive signal tracers

Ryan mattyml at bellsouth.net
Tue Sep 17 17:17:11 CDT 2002


Anyone know any cool online electronics stores? Any URLs
folks are willing to share?

Thanks,
Ryan


On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 19:03, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 06:32 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >>>> Anyone know anywhere to get CHEAP RS232 passive signal tracers? I
> >>>> would like to get a low budget version for home use.
> >>>    Radio Shack has 'em, assuming we're talking about the same 
> >>> thing...a
> >>> little box that looks like a null modem but has LEDs on it.
> >>
> >> Weren't we talking about just how much Radio Shack Sucked a few days 
> >> ago?
> >> Or am I smoking crack and confusing this with another list again?
> >
> > Yes, but some people are so pragmatic, they will go there anyway.  Like
> > to get a discount because a friend will buy it on his employee 
> > discount.
> >
> > Not that that has happened to me, but if it would, I'd buy from them if
> > it was something I wanted/needed.
> 
>    Well *I* wasn't whining about them.
> 
>    But let's put it this way: I'm a goal-oriented person.  If I need an 
> RS232 blinkenlights box *right now* and Radio Shack has one, I'm not 
> going to fuck myself because of some notion that they "suck".
> 
>          -Dave
> 
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