[Coco] OT: geek junk shops WAS: My CoCo plans - Looking for advice and insight.

[Rick Taylor]

The hacker's heaven bit is one of the reasons keeping me out here, otherwise
I'd move back South. I moved out here from Nashville about 1.75 years ago.
Javanco was the hacker's heaven store in Nashvegas, but they shut
down/turned into a custom computer shop. Honestly I'm not even sure if
they're still around. Out here though, we have weirdstuff, halted (
http://www.halted.com), the Cupertino electronics flea market -- the bay
area is amazingly geeky.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:

> Rick,
>
> I've been to that store; it was at least 10 years ago if not longer when I
> traveled for Microware.  I always loved visiting the Bay Area because there
> were so many electronics surplus stores!  Hacker's heaven...
>
> Boisy
>
>
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Rick Taylor wrote:
>
>  I've already been thinking along those lines, and I have the hardware. If
>> you're in the bay area, stop by http://www.weirdstuff.com/  - I picked up
>> an
>> internal zip drive there cheap, plus a bunch of RLL and MFM drives. I'm
>> not
>> affiliated with them in any way, I just shop there.
>> Anyway, yeah. I was thinking of going the zip drive route. I'll probably
>> try
>> all of the above (zip, IDE, CD-ROM, etc) at some point.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:26 PM, <RJRTTY at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>  In a message dated 4/6/2009 7:02:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>> boisy at tee-boy.com writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>  Rick,
>>>>
>>>
>>>  HDB-DOS's installation process includes running a  BASIC program which
>>>> will ask you if you want to compensate for an  OS-9 partition;
>>>> answering yes yields further questions regarding  size of the
>>>> partition, etc.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  This process can be fraught  with problems for the inexperienced, and
>>>> it's for that reason we  offer a customization service.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Boisy
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You know you can do it the way I did it and avoid the
>>> headaches and heartbreaks of multipartitions.
>>>
>>> I use a 100 mb internal scuzzi zip drive connected
>>> to a TC-3 interface in my repack as a removable
>>> hard drive and use
>>> one cartridge for HDB-DOS and another for Nitros9.  :)
>>>
>>> You can find the drives and cartridges with a search
>>> on Ebay..
>>>
>>> Roy
>>>
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>>> $10
>>> or
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