#: 4327 S1/General Interest
    13-Jun-90  00:16:36
Sb: #4291-#dead TTX
Fm: Donald R. Spoon 76417,1302
To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)

Thats the place!!!  My memory is getting kind of fuzzy about St. Louis
geography.  I left there about 12 yrs ago and my exposures since have been
limited to changing planes at the airport or blitzing through on IS-70
infrequently enroute to Kansas City to visit the parents.  This may not mean
much to you, but in 1976 I bought ten 60 MHZ presetable decade counter chips
from them at $1.00 each!!  That was an amazing price then - probably about 1/10
the cost they would be selling for retail.  The purchase of those chips started
me on my road to fooling with digital ICs.  I "homebrewed" a decade frequency
counter good up as high as I could generate a signal (40 Mhz) and made a
digital read-out for my ham rig.  Another place that I used to frequent just
brousing for "junk" was a place called HOOD's.  Mostly hardware store items. 
They would sell things by the pound rather than pricing them per item.  I
stocked by tool chest with a whole bunch of very good high speed drill bits for
about $5.00.  Oh well, those were the days when I was having fun.  Good
memories.  Cheers,  Don Spoon

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