Supremetronic Redux

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

Remember Supremetronic, who used to be on Queen Street? They had a lot of
useful stuff, especially audio connectors and a good collection or
resistors and capacitors. The owner wanted to retire, and the location is
now worth a fortune of course, so he sold off the business. Lawrence Chan,
who worked there at the time, then started Creatron, which is on College
just east of Spadina.

Creatron too has a lot of interesting stuff, with more emphasis on
microprocessors (Arduino, of course, and now Rasberry Pi). (Full
disclosure: they sell our oscilloscopes.) Lawrence is quite knowledgeable
about his stock and about electronics in general.

Supremetronic ended up at Honson computer on College, just west of
Spadina, where it was pretty terrible as I recall. Then the Supremetronic
stock migrated to a Home Hardware across the road, so you could pick up a
paint roller at the same time as a 1200 ohm resistor. Very handy. Now they
have moved a bit east, still on the north side, at 290 College. I was in
there today and the space allocated to the electronics bits (in the
basement) is quite enlarged. There seems to be a huge number of audio
connectors, about as many as I recall from the original Supremetronic.
They are still setting up, but it should be worth a visit when they get it
all together.

Speaking of electronics stores, on Saturday I happened to be in the
Factory Direct at 1399 Kennedy (Tacky Kennedy, as some TLUGer put it).
Man, what a dive. They make a dollar store look like Holt Renfrew. But
there were a lot of people in there..

And Above All seems to still be in play - now out in Korea Town, south
side of Bloor. I was by there on a Sunday, when they were closed. It's
really tiny. But I recall the proprietor as a pleasant, knowledgeable guy,
and they did have some useful stuff from time to time.

We are very well served by these electronics stores. I was in San
Francisco/Silicon Valley  a while ago and to my surprise could not find
anything remotely comparable.

Peter


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USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator
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