11 Jun
1997
11 Jun
'97
5:19 p.m.
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Yes, Salvation Army and other 2nd had stores. There
are 3 such stores
within a few miles of my house, so I tend to pop into them almost
anytime I'm out and about. Sometimes they are a tad overpriced, but
I've also gotten some really good deals at the smaller of the three. It
is where I picked up the Atari 8bit stuff the other night. I just had
to have the Bit-3 board when I found it!
I found an interesting board the other day in a thrift shop. Its a
stock-quote system. You plug it into your PC and then a monitor, and it
has some link to a stock-quoter service and you get stocks quotes over
your PC. I haven't looked at it in too much detail but it comes with the
manual. I'm sure the service costs an arm and a leg though. And I can't
remember if it came with software or not.
Sam
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