B wrote:
> flyaway840@... wrote:
> > I was told Akihabara station has lots of
> > electronic stores, in reality it is more like a flea market
> > with little mom and pop stores that all carry the same
> > things, and no extensive parts deparments as I thought,
> > as is the case in the USA.
>
> You didn't look very hard. If you want components there are dozens of
> stores that sell resistors, capacitors, solid state devices,
> transformers, leds, wires in all variety of guages, cables of infinite
> design and length. If you want computer parts then you find everything
> from Z80s and Apple IIc up to the latest CPUs and video cards. Want a
> battery for a 1990s laptop? Right there.
For components Akihabara (& the equivalents in Osaka, Nagoya etc) still
seems the best place to go. What about for completed widgets? I'm going
to buy a new video camera, but was thinking that it would be better to
go to one of the major discount shops (Bic Camera etc) for that sort of
thing.
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