Back from the Blast furnace

[laura_seabrook]

I got back from the computer markets. Just under $100 bought me: a 40 Gb IDE drive; an 80 Gb IDE drive; a 4 Gb Media player (hopefully one that won't be nbusted with in a month this time); and some cables. All in all the trip was economical. I left at 10am, and was back home by 1:30pm, and in that time also had lunch at McDonolds (don't normally eat there but it was right next to the bus stop and air conditioned) and shopping at ALDI.

But what a day - here's the forecast:

29°C | °F

Current: Clear
Wind: S at 26 km/h
Humidity: 62%

Sun

30°C | 22°C

Mon

27°C | 22°C

Tue

31°C | 23°C

Wed

28°C | 21°C

Gasp! Maybe I should have bought am extra fan at ALDI for $15.

Comments

[kath-ballantyne.livejournal.com]

Nice haul.
We need to hunt out a SATA drive for a laptop that we've been given. Most of it is in working order but no hard drive and the keyboard doesn't work. Better than nothing though and both ours died last year.
Shouldn't be hard to find really. Just have to wait until we can afford it.

Sata

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Well the Markets is one place to get these. The problem in buying stuff there is that if there's a problem with the kit you either have to wait a month to see the vendor again (and most are pretty accommodating) or go to the next venue where the markets are on and see them there (receipts are essential).

I bought two IDE drives because they plug into the set top box to make it a PVR (and I wanted to swap the old one old so I could extract a couple of films on it) and the media PC has a motherboard that wants to boot from one. But SATA drives were there as well.