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>>>>> ri == r ibbotson <r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk> writes:
ri> As far as I am aware I can make and sell the same computer for
ri> about UKP600 and pay myself UKP50 out of that :-)
Good for you. Is your time really worth that little? Maybe I should
hire you ;-) (That's just a joke, the shipping charges would kill the
deal, let alone the fact that I can't use my U budget to pay in small
currencies like the pound.)
I'm curious, though. It's surely true all of the new entry of born
on the minute types has created economies of scale that have driven
prices down dramatically (not to belittle Moore's Law, but the
quantity surely helps over and above that). That's a good thing. But
have good shops really gotten fewer in Britain, or is it just harder
for the uninitiated to find them amidst all the cow-flop?
That suggests one thing y'all might consider as a LUG activity: an
Electric Town safari. I don't know if it's feasible where you live,
but here in Eastern Japan, basically all the good shops are in
Akihabara in Tokyo, in cubbyholes in the back streets. There's a
long-time Austrian ex-pat called Sigi there who does Akihabara
Electric Town Crawls about once a month. He knows all the shops (and
he's not even really a Linux person), and you can get good deals on
new and used drives, PSUs (^^), monitors, old Sparcs, whatever. The
idea has apparently caught on in Osaka, too.
It doesn't necessarily have to be in Sheffield either; it's worth my
while to take the 3.5 hour RT by bus to Akihabara for Sigi's crawls
about twice a year. That's a bit high for people with real jobs, but
maybe you could catch some of the teenagers early?
And maybe even some of the Dixon's part-brain^H^H^H^H^Htimers could be
dragged along, to improve the breed. Hey, dweeb, grab this wire, I'm
sure you won't forget the experience. ... Now that's a real PSU! :-)
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