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On Friday, in article
     <20011214.1844.59364snz@zhochaka.demon.co.uk>
     dbell@zhochaka.demon.co.uk "David G. Bell" wrote:

> On Friday, in article <3c1a394c.24938602@news.freeserve.net>
>      mail@sideband.NO_SPAM.fsnet.co.uk "Jim" wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:10:48 +0000, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > >In article <3c17a3be.8518988@news.freeserve.net>, J+ 
> > ><jayplus@grotland.com> writes
> > >
> > >>Tomorrow, Thursday, Lidl will be selling one for under 20.
> > >
> > >No sign in my local branch, this morning, and the staff knew nothing 
> > >about it. They did have a "wheel-less" mouse, and a webcam; the former 
> > >selling out within about 10 minutes.
> > 
> > Must be they do different offers at different branches. Isn't it on
> > their flier for this week? 
> 
> In my part of the world, N. Lincs, it was the mouse, as on the flier.  I 
> don't recall any computer stuff on the current flier, which has offers 
> that become available next Thursday.
> 
> From hazy memory, they have advertised some stuff by posters in the shop 
> rather than in the weekly flier.
> 
> You can get cheap USB hubs.  If you know that the power drain isn't 
> significant, there are some really cheap unpowered hubs.  Otherwise, it 
> might be better to look at the quality of whatever PSU is supplied.

Went to the Computer Fair at Lincoln, and picked up a cheap USB hub, 
powered, for GBP 18.  From an outfit called The Exchange, based at 
Hemswell Cliff.  The PSU Wal-Wart looks good, with a brass earth pin, 
and it'll run without it as an unpowered hub.  Very generic, no sign of 
a brand-name and made in Taiwan.

The only unpowered-only hubs I saw were 2-way instead of 4-way, and half 
the price.  No contest, really.
-- 
David G. Bell -- Farmer, SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

The singer who is no longer, and no shorter, than he was last week.  He's
about the same length in his stocking moolies.