This is funny (ebay)

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Sat Feb 23 23:10:04 2002

"Richard Erlacher" <edick_at_idcomm.com> wrote:
> It's better than paying the $12.95 + tax at the BestBuy.

Tee hee. I think the closest Best Buy to Jeff is in Laurel, Maryland.
I was there a few days after Christmas. If they ever sold SCSI
cables, those have been flushed to make room for USB cables.

That's actually a lot of the problem where Jeff is: there are no
retailers who sell cables cheaply from their storefronts. (At least I
don't know where they are.) Sure, they have Best Buy and CompUSA and
maybe Micro Center, but all you can get at the first two is cables in
hard plastic packaging with colorful cardboard inserts that you end up
paying for. If you need cheap cables, you wait for the next computer
show to come round, and then you go to the meeting hall where it's
being held and buy what you need from someone who deals there. Or if
you're more technically inclined maybe you go to the next hamfest, but
those are a warm-weather activity in that part of the world.

Meanwhile, here in Sillycon Valley, if I need to paw through a rat's
nest of serial or SCSI cables all I have to do is look in the right
box in my bedroom. (Boxed rat's nests are much more manageable.) If
what I need isn't there, I can pick it up at Fry's or Central Computer
if I want new, or if I can take used I can find it at the next swap
meet, or at the next CRC Saturday sale, or maybe at Weird Stuff.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Sat Feb 23 2002 - 23:10:04 GMT