Thread: Not In Stock

I have many boxes of 5 1/4" floppies ut given the rate they used to go bad they are probably all dead now. I've got a full height IBM 30 meg that still ran fine last time I plugged it in.

Still waiting for someone to care about all the old computer junk in the shed, the old suns, the osbourne 1....sigh...

I have a twin floppy 8086 pc with a green screen & msdos 2.11 in a carton somewhere.

Also have a 486 in a case the size of a bar fridge, it boots & runs unix from 140Mb HDD & has white screen VGA monitor & an AT 86 key keyboard.
The memory expansion is on a full length plug in ISA card & it also has one of those multi port serial boards to allow mulituser mode & the users log in from a mono serial terminal.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I have a twin floppy 8086 pc with a green screen & msdos 2.11 in a carton somewhere.

Also have a 486 in a case the size of a bar fridge, it boots & runs unix from 140Mb HDD & has white screen VGA monitor & an AT 86 key keyboard.
The memory expansion is on a full length plug in ISA card & it also has one of those multi port serial boards to allow mulituser mode & the users log in from a mono serial terminal.

I've got an abacas, it is probably more current than all that stuff.

Ok you lot ring round and try get parts for them

I may be able to find some beads for Goof's abacas.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I may be able to find some beads for Goof's abacas.

I could turn them

Originally Posted by wheelinround

I could turn them

What would you turn them into?

So do you feel any better now Ray?
Mostly now if I buy tools etc and LV has the right sort of thing I just order it from them, I know almost to the hour when I'll get it. And its always quicker than anyone but McJings I think.

Geoff Asians seem to turn into Gold i might give that a try

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

So do you feel any better now Ray?
Mostly now if I buy tools etc and LV has the right sort of thing I just order it from them, I know almost to the hour when I'll get it. And its always quicker than anyone but McJings I think.

CH nope feel like crap really but will survive.

As for the printer situation 3 days now waiting for a call from Harris technologies I even have phoned them.

Sue has printing to do tonight it will get done but we need new printers ASAP and I won't compromise on them.

Good day turning though

Originally Posted by Geoff Dean

Electrical goods are about the only thing that I wouldn't buy OS, having to use step up transformers and then lack of warranty worries me.

I've just learnt that the premium German power tools can be exported out of Germany with warranty.

The situations for inporters here are exactly the same as they are anywhere else. Demand and supply can be very tricky to manage. One of the biggest problems we face is not necessarily available stock and prices, but exposure to the range. Locally we can only get 13 of Colt's 478 part numbers, and that's as good a reason as any for going OS. I think the trick is to find ways around these problems, and that's not too hard a lot of the time.

As for Gerry: he's made a national fool of himself, no wonder they've taken him out of the adverts (I am lead to believe that's why)

As for computer: think I'm glad that the sum total of my computer bits is what I'm working on right now (except for the inevitable box of cables in the loft)

As for Macs & Mac users: don't get me started. Until recently I was working both, and so pretty familar. Mac hardware is delish, and there should be more of it. However, because they are apparently designed for dummies, they really backfire when you try to do intensely difficult things like opening 50kb Excel sheet (ten seconds minimum, and that's from half a dozen users). I could write pages of how difficult the usual easy things are to do (like opening a web link from a spreadsheet - 20 seconds, you can't see anything to indicate signs of life, so you do it again, which slows down the first one that actually was alive .......blah blah blah. They are crap. I went on to Mactalk forum and explained all this and asked why and all I got was "There's a bastard PC user criticising our Macs! Let's get 'im!"

Having low prices? is one thing, but not having stock is only the beginning.
Now lets see, Required window winders - first store none of what I required in stock, visit second store.
Require 30 cupboard knobs - actually got them in one store (but none left on shelf afterwards).
Required 12 cupboard knobs - first store had 3, visit second store for the rest.
Required three lever sets - first store had 1, visit second store and take last two off shelf.
What is going to happen next time I need to buy multiples of an item. Just as well branches of the chain are close together, but it is the time to go in and out of each store and travel between them that is the killer.

Harvey Norman I just will not shop there. The staff just ignore you.

I didn't know they had staff (as such).

I worked for Hardly Normal for a couple years before I retired, as dock supervisor in the first computer super store they opened in the north shore in NSW.Bigger bunch of no hopers you could ever work with,two jokers sacked over time for knocking off computers.Do up an invoice, deliver and install to the customer ,pocket the money, when machine played up and was brought back for warranty work they were then found out
Franchisees used to hate Gerry walking into their store,was in my store one day ,little old lady was looking at a fridge,he went over to her engaged her in conversation,"How much would you like to pay for the fridge love?Seeing you think they are too expensive"
Sold the fridge for below cost, franchisee was hopping mad about it.