<snip> > * Above All surplus on Bloor near Euclid (Steve has some very > vintage/niche bits indeed. His phone is disconnected, so don't try calling)
Thanks, thats good to know. I had tried calling and assumed they had closed. This was my goto place for refurbished 20/30/40mb Fujitsu drives. Fujitsu had a lot of those drives returned because FAT systems reported too many bad sectors. I never had a problem using ext on Linux systems, they reported the correct sizes and worked fine. In the 90's I use to overclock old boards and would toast stuff regularly. I was always dashing in and asking for some odd widget. Often they had it, or a reasonable facsimile. > > * A-1 Surplus out in the wilds of Etobicoke is a vast cavern of *stuff*. > I'm told that patient browsing rewards with some excellent finds*. > > If you plan ahead and have a few weeks before a build, you can buy > selection boxes of hardware on eBay from Hong Kong, and they'll arrive > in a few weeks. I am never organized enough to do this. > > Stewart > > *: I'm still trying to round up a trip out to A-1 soon. Have vehicle, > can travel, will be spending a couple of hours browsing the chip racks > looking for cooler hardware than the speech synths I found last time. > > cheers, > Stewart > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk Sent from mobile.
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