Place to buy computer components
Apr 14, 2006 | 5:18 pm
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Place to buy computer components
For reasons far too convoluted to explain, I need to buy an external USB disk case for a 2.5" hard drive in Chicago, and I need to get it tomorrow...
I'm at the W Lakeshore - any suggestions for nearby places I might try? I don't have a car, so somewhere in the city and accessible by bus/train would be good.
I'm at the W Lakeshore - any suggestions for nearby places I might try? I don't have a car, so somewhere in the city and accessible by bus/train would be good.
Apr 14, 2006 | 7:39 pm
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Originally Posted by NickW
For reasons far too convoluted to explain, I need to buy an external USB disk case for a 2.5" hard drive in Chicago, and I need to get it tomorrow...
It's difficult; the stores in your area are typical office/retail places like office max and office depot; they'd have external disk drives, but not the drive cases. CDW closed their downtown location last year.
Call the Chicago Cyber Exchange, (312) 337-4882, address 455 W North Ave- just a few miles from you. They might have one.
Otherwise, the Microcenter, 2645 Elston Avenue (773) 292-1700 is probably a 12 to 15 minute cab ride.
Apr 15, 2006 | 6:20 am
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Thanks for the advice! Fortunately, the putatively dead laptop that this was required for data rescue from re-animated for long enough for that data to be retrieved - so the immediate need has passed.
Apr 15, 2006 | 8:10 am
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Originally Posted by NickW
Thanks for the advice! Fortunately, the putatively dead laptop that this was required for data rescue from re-animated for long enough for that data to be retrieved - so the immediate need has passed.
Enjoy your stay in our fair city!
