> You could probably answer all of these trivially with a quick query on your favorite search engine. But it hasn’t always been that way. In the old days... yo

> You could probably answer all of these trivially with a quick query on your favorite search engine. But it hasn’t always been that way. In the old days... you can get an Amazon link with some counterfeit or fly by night product and a bunch of knucklehead reviewers saying stuff like "the black cable was indeed black!" and "it took long to ship!", or you can go to the local store that sells all the electronics stuff you need in some subcategory, which you would likely already know. also depending on what you want to look up, google will give you an invalid state approved answer (coming soon) >If you wanted to find out about a particular IC in the old days, the best thing to do was to find the manufacturer’s data book. If you were in a school or a company, there might be what you wanted in the library. ...and today you get some shithead's 3rd party website with a bunch of pdfs from god knows where encoded into web page slide shows with google captchas