Post by thread:RS Catalog(ue) & CD

1. If you are a RS customer be ware - I assume that the new catalogue and CD is being introduced elsewhere at about the same time as here. The new RS CD autostarts and runs without warning or permission. It APPEARS that it may overwrite system files that you may wish that it hadn't. At a minimum 1st make a copy of unidrv.dll in \windows\system just in case. 2. The new NZ paper catalogue is a joke - they have relegated the pricing to the rear of the book (even though there is space for it in the book proper as before). Evidently we are an inferior market here. Shades of the good old days. Farnell can expect a sudden surge in business. Do the new catalogues (or catalogs :-)) in other countries contain pricing against line items? The electronic access is quite good and half fast but providing a rapidly accessed pricelist would have gone some part of the way toward addressing their stupidity in failing to properly price the book. Russell McMahon _____________________________ - http://www.easttimor.com Updated regularly: 100,000 refugees STILL in West Timor face starvation! - http://www.sudan.com And you think Kosovo and Chechnya are bad! What can one man* do? Help the hungry at no cost to yourself! at http://www.thehungersite.com/ (* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-))

> Our RS cat is South Africa is in fact two seperate books, one containing the > product, the other with the prices per 1,>5,>100 etc. Two books? Blimey, don't complain, the UK one is *six* fat volumes. The CD version is much better for your health... I can see why the prices are listed separately though, that way they can use the same catalogue in different territories and just print different pricelists - or decide on the prices at the last moment to allow for currency changes. .

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:10:31 +0100, you wrote: >>Blimey, don't complain, the UK one is *six* fat volumes. The CD version >>is much better for your health... > >except it does not seem to be possible to subscribe only to the CD! new >subscribers will always get the books as well. I wish I had that problem - I usually get 2 CDs and have to call them for the paper catalogue, and explain that although I don't buy much myself, I specify tons of stuff for customers (OK I don't often suggest RS but would be even less likely to if I didn't have a paper catalogue). CDs are fine but will never be as good as paper for browsing and quick access. The ideal would be a concise catalogue with more detailed info on the CD. Dallas have got this exactly right - a book of 1-page data summaries and a CD of full data sheets.

{Quote hidden}> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Harrison [SMTP:spam_OUTmikeTakeThisOuTWHITEWING.CO.UK] > Sent: Wednesday, 29 March 2000 20:17 > To: .....PICLISTKILLspam@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Re: RS Catalog(ue) & CD > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:10:31 +0100, you wrote: > > >>Blimey, don't complain, the UK one is *six* fat volumes. The CD version > >>is much better for your health... > > > >except it does not seem to be possible to subscribe only to the CD! new > >subscribers will always get the books as well. > I wish I had that problem - I usually get 2 CDs and have to call them > for the paper catalogue, and explain that although I don't buy much > myself, I specify tons of stuff for customers (OK I don't often > suggest RS but would be even less likely to if I didn't have a paper > catalogue). > CDs are fine but will never be as good as paper for browsing and quick > access. The ideal would be a concise catalogue with more detailed info > on the CD. Dallas have got this exactly right - a book of 1-page data > summaries and a CD of full data sheets. > > > Hey what is the problem, In Australia we just got the new RS catalog, one book only and one CD only!. Seems that we can no longer use it as a world wide matching catalog, gone are the days when item X on page Y location Z is the same in Australia as it is in Korea etc. Dennis

In message <071101bf9956$40a4c2c0$5dbdf682KILLspamssdwkiwi.AG.rl.ac.uk>, Alan B Pearce <.....A.B.PearceKILLspam.....RL.AC.UK> writes >>Blimey, don't complain, the UK one is *six* fat volumes. The CD version >>is much better for your health... > >except it does not seem to be possible to subscribe only to the CD! new >subscribers will always get the books as well. We've had an RS account at work for over 30 years (well back in the RadioSpares days!), I recently filled a form in asking how you wanted the catalogue, books, CD, or both. Certainly you can easily order just the CD, even without having an account, but I much prefer the books, the CD is quite hard to find things :-(. I tend to look items up in the book, then order them either via the CD or Internet. -- Nigel. /--------------------------------------------------------------\ | Nigel Goodwin | Internet : EraseMEnigelgspam_OUTTakeThisOuTlpilsley.demon.co.uk | | Lower Pilsley | Web Page : http://www.lpilsley.demon.co.uk | | Chesterfield | Official site for Shin Ki and New Spirit | | England | Ju Jitsu | \--------------------------------------------------------------/