[nylug-talk] Downtown Hardware Shops

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, George Bourozikas wrote:

> Actually that's not the place I had in mind.  You are right, Datavision
> is a notch above the mall shops, but the shop I am talkin about is an
> "old fashioned computer store," out of the late eighties.  When I went
> for a null modem cable once they had _in stock_ various combinations of
> DB-9/25, M-F, 6-10'!  And they offered to make me a custom one on the
> spot.  I was impressed.
you may be thinking about cables & chips - in which case, they do stock
things, but they are overpriced to hell and back. 

Or, you may be thinking about another shop (which I can't recall the name
of), really awesome place, but which has closed ~5 years ago.