Radio Shack slogan (was Re: [OT] USB KVM switches)

[David V. Corbin]

>>> 
>>> > The salesman was curious as to why I kept buying fuses.  
>>> I explained 
>>> > what I was doing.  He told me that I should just short 
>>> across the fuse 
>>> > holder.
>>> 
>>> Ack!
>>> I had a similar experience in Maplin (big UK electronics 
>>> store chain) once. I went in to buy a 5V PSU for a LAN hub. 
>>> After explaining what I wanted to the ID-ten-T behind the 
>>> counter, he scuttled off to track down a PSU. What he came 
>>> back with was a 15V PSU. His response was:
>>>   "We've run out of 5V supplies, but this 15V will work 
>>> fine. Don't worry,
>>>    your stuff will just drop the voltage it doesn't need."
>>> 
>>> Needless to say I thanked the salesdroid for his "advice", 
>>> left and bought one of those multivoltage "mobile phone 
>>> charger" things. Last I heard, it was still working fine.
>>> 
>>> Later.
>>> -- 


Oh no!!!! Another believer (the salesman) who thinks voltage doesn't
matter....Hopefully he checked that the current matched <running and
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