Hello Stewart,
Thanks for your response.
My comments are inline below.
Steve
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From: "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk@gtalug.org>
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP
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On 2016-07-25 03:34 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
active surplus …
I have yet to find another place with such a comprehensive stock of
the
little odds and ends someone night need.
True enough, but Graham (the former manager of Active Surplus) plus
the
skilled facilitators of Little Dada are trying to find space for a
relaunch. More details here: OGP ("Operation Gorilla Phoenix")
Electronics & Surplus <http://www.greenenterprises.ca/OGP.html>
Other places that might have the little bits like standoffs:
* the elecronics place in the basement of the College Home Hardware,
near Spadina
* Above All surplus on Bloor near Euclid (Steve has some very
vintage/niche bits indeed. His phone is disconnected, so don't try
calling)
* A-1 Surplus out in the wilds of Etobicoke is a vast cavern of
*stuff*.
I'm told that patient browsing rewards with some excellent finds*.
If I do decide to build the new Linux PC myself, I will check out all
these interesting cources you cite.
If you plan ahead and have a few weeks before a build, you can buy
selection boxes of hardware on eBay from Hong Kong, and they'll arrive
in a few weeks. I am never organized enough to do this.
I donlt really have a few weeks to spare. I need to get the Linux PC up
and running, so I can get back to the rest of my life.
Stewart
*: I'm still trying to round up a trip out to A-1 soon. Have vehicle,
can travel, will be spending a couple of hours browsing the chip racks
looking for cooler hardware than the speech synths I found last time.
Speech synthesizers !! Ahhhh. How I envy the young. I wish I still had a
few decades left on the meter, so I could mess around with interesting
stuff like speech synth ...
cheers,
Stewart
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