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riveros@musca.unm.edu (Sergio Riveros) writes:

>Remington Stone (rem@ucolick.org) wrote:
>: Hi,

>: I thought it would be easy to walk into a store and buy a 
>: 5 to 3.3 volt cpu converter.  A couple of tries didn't 
>: work.  So I resorted to the phone, and none of my favorite
>: wierd computer gizmo places either had them nor knew where
>: to get them.

>: I'd still prefer to just walk into a south or east bay store 
>: and buy one, rather than mail order from Omaha or somewhere.

>: So: can anyone tell me who in south or east bay has them?
>: Or, anywhere in SF bay area?
>: Or, anywhere anywhere?

>: Thanks in advance,

>: Rem

>--
>I would also like to know where to get them, specialy if they sell the
>AMD586-133 ADZ type CPU.
>The voltage converter seem to be very hard to find, if I can not find
>one I will just give up wait untill summer and get a pentium with a new
>motherboard. The links on the AMD home page are not updated, and they
>list non 800 numbers to most of their links which make it a bad choice.

>If you know a company with a good reputation that sells this devices
>please let me know.


>Thanks,
>Sergio Riveros

I picked one up from JDR Microdevices for ~$45 a few months ago.  Fry's
didn't have a clue and said no device existed.  JDR is in San Jose, CA.

-Harvey