>the HSC sign...
>
>HSC, off the central expressway, no idea how I got to >it. Very much like
>the first two places, too tidy, too >retail. This isn't really that bad, I
>mean if I lived in >the area and needed something between swapmeet times I
>just might head over to one of these places to get that >needed item, but
>nothing got me excited during the >visit. Some prices were comically high,
>but some were OK >if you needed the item. Big collection of data books to
> >read with free coffee over in the corner too.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I recently took a trip to a used computer place
in Witchita that wanted *way* too much for their stuff ($65 for a
refurbished Apple/Conner 2.5" 60 Mb SCSI hard drive? I could probably find
one for $6, just for the cost of shipping)
>General trip notes, WOW have prices gone up. Gas was >$2.19/gal, which is
>about $0.40 higher than Orange, CA, >food prices were also higher, even in
>supermarkets on >some items (bottled water, but not soda). Rooms were
>outrageous, we paid $300/night staying at the Holiday >Inn Crowne Plaza
>(very nice, but an older work in >progress), and MUCH worse a rathole
>(beatup old >motel/apt on its first leg of fix up) on the east side >of San
>Jose called the Whitehouse Inn was $102 when a >page at 7PM forced us to
>stay Thursday night. Much >better rooms at slightly better prices were
>available >earlier in the day, but by 6PM they were gone.
I hate to make you jealous or anything, but here in Texas it's right about
at $1.35-$1.45 for cheap grade gas.
Also, If you are ever in that area again, look for a hotel chain called
MicroTel, (No, this is not a company that made computer modems in the 80's!)
you will be surprised at how much you have to pay, as well as the
facilities.
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David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Home page:
http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3, Disto 512K RAM board.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
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Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 18:08:08 BST