Brent Reynolds wrote:
>Bernie, here in the major cities of the U.S. and in smaller, but
>centrally-located towns, we have weekend events known as "shows".
Well, my city can atleast be counted as a "centrally-located", but there
are no such things here at all.
>In cities like Atlanta, there are also people who deal in old stuff out of
>their homes, and several second-hand computer stores and "salvatge" stores
>that sell this kind of stuff.
There's one such place here in my town - run by the city itself to give
unemployed people something to do in the days. I haven't visited (but it's
located 2km from here so I bet I'll visit on some occasion, so now I have
no idea how much old computers/parts they got).
>Even new, where still available, multi I/O IDE interface cards are quite
>cheap now in most computer stores. Everything is going PCI now. If you
>have a motherboard with VL-Bus connections, those cards are really cheap now
>when you can find them.
That's unfortunately long from the truth here, we are down to one (or
perhaps two)
*real* computer shops were the sales people actually know what they are
talking about (or atleast think they do <g>). There are also quite a few
places (mostly supermarkets) where one can buy a computer. But the prices
are much higher, and the hardware isn't very fast (if we compare with what
one could get for the same price).
//Bernie
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