15 Oct
2003
15 Oct
'03
8 p.m.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, James M. Walker wrote:
For those with an interest in "POSSIBLY"
restoring your older computer
equipment. Go to Home Depot, pick a Free copy of the "PRO" catalog and
take it home and thumb through it. If you are really serious about, not
paying off the national debt to get stuff to keep your equipment back in
operation. I go there, on slow days, and just walk around looking at
things, that COULD be used to make/repair other things.
I constructed my PDP-8 replica with materials all found at Home Depot (or
Lowes since it's closer, but the people at HD in my area are pretty
helpful). Their breadth of selection does have its limitations though.
I might also mention, there are some older folks that
work in these
places that do indeed know what the heck they are about, lots of them
are former employees of the very "Old Fashioned" hardware shops you
mentioned, I think it was adapt or go hungry, that brought them to the
Home Depot, they are some of them very knowledgeable and also extremely
helpful!
Many are also ex-tradesmen who do know their stuff. As with all
situations, you can't go in there with preconceived notions that they're
all idiots or else you'll ignore the person who really would be able to
help you. I'm sure it's rare, but even Radio Shack has the occasional
"diamond in the rough".
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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