Moving to Buffalo

[Joe Pollock]

Welcome toBuffalo!  There's a CompUSA a couple of blocks from your new
location on Niagara Falls Boulevard for the usual stuff.  For bulk cable,
maybe someone else can help.  There are several cable venders in town -
everything from Graybar to Radio Shack (commercial catalog - not the retail
stores).

Joe Pollock
----- Original Message -----
From: <ccb at acm.org>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: Moving to Buffalo


>
> > I usually by my computer parts on-line, but sometimes like to go into
> > local shops.  Does anyone have suggestions on good local shops in the
> > Buffalo Metro area?  I'm moving into a place in Amherst around Niagara
> > Falls & Sheridan.  Right now I'm looking for about 150 feet of network
> > cable to wire my new place.
>
> Cool.  I grew up a couple of miles from there around Delaware and
> Sheridan - a piece of heaven we call Kenmore ;-).
>
> No tips on computer stores, moved east a long time ago.  Last I looked
> there was a Mighty Taco at NFBlvd and Sheridan.  Go there soon.  The
> Mighty is more important than the Buffalo Bills.  Continue east on
> Sheridan to the intersection of Millersport for Duff's.  Don't bother
> to order anything other than wings.  You'll go back again and again.
>
> Have you considered 802.11b wireless ethernet?  My home rig is an SMC
> Barricade base station, a wired (100mbps) Linux workstation, a
> PowerBook (Firewire) with Airport card, my Sony VAIO (Linux) for work,
> my wife's HP Omnibook (W2k) for work, my son's Win98 box and a crusty
> old Nec Versa (Win98) that has my 8 years of quicken data.  Among my
> son's box and the miscellaneous laptops we have 2 Lucent Orinocco
> cards that pop in as needed.  There are also 2 spare ports on the base
> station for dropping in a high-speed connection for things like
> backups or bulk MP3 transfers before business trips.
>
>
> ccb
>
>
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