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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