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# Actually a male 1/8th' TRS is just the standands headphone jack.
TRS is tip, ring, sleeve which refers to the contacts on the pin part of the jack lead on a stereo jack plug. Basically two positive sends (CC) and one negative.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 11:53, archived)
# i know, i just didn't know whether apple had done something nasty and used a nonstandard plug.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:04, archived)
# In Radio shack
you used to be able to go to a big bucket in the corner where they had a massive assortment of males and females of various sizes.

You could in theory daisy chain these in the correct sequence so as to connect your rev meter in your Mazda to the hamster wheel, via the Kenwood blender making you pea soup, the changing hues of colour of which would affect a light-responsive diode powering a gramophone dependent also on back-up hamster power, to play Taylor Dane's "Tell it to my heart" at probably too slow a speed.

You just don't get those parts buckets any more. Not even in Maplin, which is a bit of a HND in electric bits compared to Radio Shack's PhD. Anyone think there's something suspicious going on?

(something gurgly, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:04, archived)
# quite so.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:09, archived)
# when radio shack aka tandy still existed in the uk
in the early 80's you'd get a little catalogue through the post with *all kinds* of crap in it

you could get anything from there

then they decided to turn into a low budget version of dixons

shit tho they were, dixons were a far far better version of dixons

the inevitable consequence of all this is that the hardcore folks who wanted bits were gone and any customer who wanted consumer electronic junk already got it from dixons

and so, doomed they were.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:11, archived)
# Hope is not lost!
*bathes in the divine glow of the beacon of Maplin*
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:12, archived)
# It's OK. Would you like a Kleenex?
I have finished with the one I was using for the alien girl.
(something gurgly, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:16, archived)
# Naaa I have my own thanks
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:22, archived)
# I'm lovin' it
:)
(something gurgly, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:24, archived)
# so was I
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:27, archived)
# lol, maplin
"WE DO NOT STOCK THIS, SO IT DOES NOT EXIST, YOU ARE STUPID FOR ASKING US TO ORDER THIS ITEM, YES, YOU"

:D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:28, archived)
# Maybe you have a bad store.
The techs are great at my one, and if I ask something that they don't know about they'll call someone who does.
I did have one little shite at an Eastend store that was full of piss and wind though, I was asking about digital TV recievers.
I'm not the best person to try and play the smart ares with. I think he started to regret his appreach when I started going into logorythym.:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:34, archived)
# it varies
really maplins in the main is trying to be some kind of dixons for people who think they know stuff

like selling the nutters 1 farad capacitors for their mentil sound system, innit

edit: and yay for technical knowledge in the face of "upsell to idiot" :D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:36, archived)
# Well the older guy behind the counter actually said
'Nigel stop being an arse'. He had no technical knowledge on the subject but had tried a number of recievers and antellas as he was in a bad reception area and gave me some very useful info.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:41, archived)
# heh
I looked at a book on transmission/propagation theory

I ran away SCARED!

yer average goon in a shop ain't going to know shit about that subject :D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:26, archived)
# totally
but that's like a finely choreographed dance for me.
I love reading about that sorta stuff. It's a very bizarre cause and effect thing, which is probably why I have no life:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:33, archived)
# Hehehe in theory you could
But the signal degradation would be terrible:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:11, archived)
# And how exactly would that further deteriorate Taylor Dane's tune?
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T5oSpQDerps
(something gurgly, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:38, archived)
# IT would be an improvement
You wouldn't hear anything.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:49, archived)
# Now hold on
This device would not be in a forest where there are those legendary silent falling trees due to no audience.

Let's not raise that controversy again.

This is Taylor Dane. She cannot be silenced. Abd she always has an audience. Even in prison (probably where she performs, like a kind of Johnny Cash, but the inmates really just want to see her wrinkled, but forensically uncommon, tits).
(something gurgly, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:56, archived)