On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:40:50PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > Can also suggest Graybar for cables and networking tools (ends/crimpers, > etc), although they claim to be wholesalers, I think they'd happily take > your money. I've found them to be more helpful and also cheaper on a lot of > things, than Norvac. Graybar and Norvac are both out west 11th, Graybar is > past Fred Meyers. Also out that way is VOS, Virtual Office Systems, which > some here may poo-poo, but they've been providing many stable PCs to my crew > lately, and are pretty responsive to problems and returns and the like, when > they do arise. The only complaint *I* have with them is that they seem to > like to zip-tie the heck out of the cabling, which can pose problems for IDE > cables.... fortunately it hasn't yet! VOS sells the PC systems through the > UO bookstore, but is located out west 11th, between Graybar and Norvac IIRC, > in the same little shopping center as a Radio Shack, near the DMV.
It's probably okay to zip-tie and IDE cable, really. I used to do an awful lot of that myself just for the sake of trying to get airflow around components. Not everyone can have the airflow design of a Mac. ;) _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
