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Hmm, doesn't sound bad - *almost* within my budget! Just need to build a little robotic carousel to store and load the discs and write a linux driver ;-) Hey, almost seriously, does anyone sell this kind of thing? I know that you can buy tape backup robots for umpteen thousands of pounds, but has anyone got any ideas on how I could build a little robot to pick 'n' place discs? <falls from fantasy land with a crash> Ouch! Jon On Monday 29 July 2002 08:45, you wrote:
The only thing I found PC World good for was a DVD RAM drive which I picked up for £170 including a 4.7GB disk :). It wasn't a crap one either (it was Toshiba) and everywhere else I looked online it was loads more expensive ??? I have no idea why PC World (of all places ??) would have cheap DVD RAMs but it appears they do ! Go and invest in endless storage ;) Rich On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:59:36 -0400 Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Sunday 28 July 2002 13:08, you wrote:Matt Lee wrote:Anyone know of places to buy Mac hardware locally? (Exeter)PC World - unlikely as it seems, no idea on price.<shudders> To cut a (very) long story short, *never* buy anything from PC World. Please! A mate of my was bought a PC from the aforementioned by his aunt (who, quite evidently, knew nothing about computers). When you included the 3 year "extended warranty", it was around double the price I would have paid for an identical machine. The crunch came when his graphics card went faulty - they finally replaced it after 4 visits (which for us is was a 50 mile round trip). Which means I could have replaced and upgraded the card for less than the petrol money and a darn sight quicker! I guess it might be worth paying a little over the odds if you can be sure of good aftersales support, but otherwise I would suggest finding the cheapest retailer (which won't be PC World, I can assure you) and replacing (and probably upgrading) any hardware that goes wrong. I always shudder when I hear somebody recommend buying a "good computer", as they obviously don't realise that all of the components are almost exactly the same in every machine! To me a "good computer" is a cheap, fast one with your favourite distro of linux installed 8-) Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.---------------------- Rich Smith University of Exeter -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
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