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- From: antunes@astro.psu.edu (Sandy Antunes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Good Amiga store in Japan Found!
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- Date: 14 Sep 92 05:32:23 GMT
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- Hello! Well, some time ago someone gave a list of amiga places in Japan.
- However, in calling them I found they no longer deal with walk-ins. Reading
- through Login magazine and trying a few other sources lead to:
-
- "System Compbac, Inc", the neatest amiga store I've seen since the Memory
- Location in Massachusettes. It is a small place, run by one fellow
- (H. Ogino), their phone number is 03-3837-8689, they are open weekends
- but closed, I think, Thursdays, he opens at noon (I think). It is near
- the Okachimachi station, which is one stop before Akihabara.
-
- The shop is really nice, software and hardware on the wall, other stuff in
- back, an Amiga set up to demo, cabinets full of PD stuff, a case full of
- ROMs and kickstarts and memory chips, and lots of signs describing systems
- availible (he had the 4000 listed, with specs!)
-
- The owner is very good, for several reasons:
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- 1) He speaks good english, which is useful since my Japanese is still poor
- 2) He is knowledgable about Amigas and tech in general
- 3) He is helpful and kind
-
- I was looking for a new monitor, he ended up recommending a specific
- inexpensive Multisync. He sold cables for 10000 yen for them, but also
- sold just the 23-pin connector and suggested it was easier/cheaper to
- make my own if I knew anything about electronics... he also loaned me
- an ohmmeter and one of his cables so I could trace the pinouts since he
- didn't have a map of the pinouts handy... all this while an amiga user's
- group was meeting in his store. The monitor itself he told me to get in
- nearby Akihabara, and recommended a few places to try and a good price
- to aim for (Akihabara is bargain town for electronics). In short, very
- impressive... anyone that will sell you a $5 part rather than suggest you
- either buy an official expensive monitor (very expensive, in Japan) or
- else buy their expensive cable is a good salesperson-- because now I'll
- go back there when I need things.
-
- Oh, he also carries most of the Amiga magazines, for about 1/3 what they
- charge at, say, Kinokunia, and sells the back issues of the disk magazines
- for 1/2 of that rate.
-
- So, if you need Amiga stuff while in Japan but fear duty and shipping
- costs, this is well worth looking into.
-
- cheers,
-
- sandy
- ques sera c'est la vie
- alex@astro.isas.ac.jp
-