[SWLUG] Friendly PC shops/old PC bits

[pbhj]

Mark,

Have you tried CITC 
<http://www.citcwales.co.uk/cgi-bin/CITC/baseweb2.exe> (on Portmanmoor 
road industrial estate, not far from Magic R-bout)? They regularly throw 
out computer cases (I used to volunteer there).

They refurb 2nd hand business machines for charity but also sell (IMHO 
for too much) computers to individuals. They have a lot of old chips and 
SIMMs (! - I recommended making geek keychains out of them ..) and 
things lying around (or did at least) and plenty of obsolete hardware.

Computers that are totally borked get stripped for useful parts (memory, 
drives, video cards,...) and then junked.

I'd expect them to be suspicious so play it softly.

The main "engineer" was an MCSE called Karl when I was there. They have 
a dude called Ken (IIRC) who is good with monitors.

I tried to introduce them to linux but I wasn't really there long enough ...

pbhj


Mark Henderson wrote:

> Evening all,
>
> I'm wondering if there's any decent computer shops in Cardiff? I know  
> there's about five on City road and surrounding area, and probably 
> more  elsewhere, but can anyone say if any are particulary good or 
> bad? I've  popped into a couple to ask for price lists, and they were 
> decidedly less  than friendly.
>
> I'm after various new bits and bobs, and also some older bits and 
> pieces.  Do any of the shops let you at their off-casts from upgrades 
> and things?  (The shop I used to know in Glasgow had loads of stuff 
> that came in from  upgrades and such like that they used to let me at 
> for a few quid).
>
> That said, if anyone on the list has an old ATX case, PSU or PC133 
> RAM  they don't want, in the Cardiff area, I may be able to releive 
> you of it  for a few quid :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
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