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Re: where to find PC components, parts? north Metro area

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From: Bruce Watson
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1992 19:13
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In article <1992Jun15.035637@eklektix.com+ rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
+Where would you go to find PC components--stuff like case, motherboard,
+memory, disk drives, add-on cards, displays, etc.?  I'd like to find a
+place in Boulder or the northern Denver area, but 'most anyplace in Denver
+would work out.
+
+I haven't bought much of this stuff for a while.  Of the two places where I
+used to go, one is out of business and the other is wholesale-only, so I'm
+looking for some new sources.  I know I can mail-order some stuff, or I can
+get it the next time I happen to be in California, but I'd rather find some
+local sources (if they exist) and patronize them if their prices are not
+too far out of line.  Always Buy Colorado, and all that, y'know.
+
+Another way to phrase it, if you're familiar with Silicon Valley, is that
+it is the question to which "Fry's" would be an OK (not the best) answer.
+-- 
+Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
+  ...The way to meet an impossible circumstance is with voluntary craziness.

I got my AT clone from R & W Computers, Inc. They are located at 7360 
W. 52nd Ave, Unit C, Arvada. They specialize in systems, but sell
components. I bought mine in Dec 1990 and have been very happy with it.
Their prices are competitive with any mail order I've seen.


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|wats@scicom |   Oh! I get it now. Top Of Form doesn't mean top-of-form;   |
|Bruce Watson|               it means TOP OF FORM!                         |
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Subject: Re: where to find PC components, parts?  north Metro area
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