From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_pele.WURLDLINK.NET)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 17:13:01 EDT
Pretty interesting history of the two Bill.. Anyways, is this the
cable everyone is looking for? http://www.cyberguys.com - In the search
field, put in 1212580 and it should come up. I just ordered a bunch of
Firewire cables and 6 pin to 4 pin firewire adapters as well as other
stuff.
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Bill Morrow wrote:
> halTED and halTEK were once the same company..
> mt. view store and s. clara (or sunnyvale?) store..
>
> then they split the sheets..
> the mt. view store was better..
>
> the mike, the manager of the mt. view store took the test instruments part
> of the business across the parking lot..
> about 1985 or thereabouts..
>
> there was also a computer salvage warehouse in palo alto on park avenue just
> to the north of karl van kempens mercedes dealership..
> doubt that he is still there, though i DID run into him (not karl) online
> several years ago..
>
> back to the subject, i find myself in possesion of a DELL ac supply that
> uses the same cord..
> its got to be more or less universal..
> i'll bet theres a cord manufacturer out there with a dozen verieties of this
> cord in their catalog..
>
> <------------------------------->
> Cordially, :-)
> Bill Morrow
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Beals" <bandy_at_cinnamon.com>
> To: "Bill Morrow" <marrow_at_adelphia.net>
> Cc: "Mitchell Yee" <mitchell_yee_at_yahoo.com>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:55 PM
> Subject: Re: 3 prong ac cables
>
>
> >
> > penzance_at_gate.net said:
> > > also, if haltek is still in business in mountain view, they might have
> > > some of those..
> >
> > Dead and gone. )-:
> >
> > HalTed is still in business, though, same location off Central, "south"
> [east]
> > of Lawrence. Not sure what Hal did after he closed down Haltek. I
> believe it
> > was a rent increase that killed the biz -- of course there are now
> kajillions
> > of empty buildings in the valley and rents are dropping like flies.
> >
> > Speaking of Halted, they have IDC outlet strips in stock again. Woo hoo!
> Of
> > course my supply of IDC->IDC cords is a bit low at the moment...but I know
> > where to get more.
> >
> > As for the three prong roundy cord, I saw one in _Fort Bragg_ of all
> places at
> > the combo Radio Shack and True Value Hardware store, as well as a Y-type
> IDC
> > cord! One outlet, two thingies! [Too cool!]
> >
> >
>
>
>
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