Anyone here know a good shop in NYC?

[Crakatoa]

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a good place in New York City to buy some cheap, second-hand computer parts. When I lived out in San Francisco there was a great used-computer shop in Berkeley that had boxes all over the place full of cpu pulls, video card pulls, etc.. You could browse and pick-up armfuls of used parts for only a few bucks. You never knew if they worked or not, but for only a couple dollars it was worth it to try. I need a similar place in NYC so that I can troubleshoot and re-build my old fried computer without spending any serious cash (I'm very broke, don't need high performance), but haven't been able to find one yet. Anyone know of such a place?

Or, if not, can anyone just recommend good NYC comp shops off the beaten path? I've been to Chips & Techs and Madison Computers, but even though they'll let you haggle the price down they're still dealing new parts and so $$$ parts. The big computer shop across from COMPusa on Fifth is no help either.

I appreciate any suggestions...

[David M]

Crackatoa...sorry to get off topic, but is this the place on University a few blocks from the freeway with the Asian guy that owns it? If not, where is this place? I live in the SF Bay Area.

Thanks

[Crakatoa]

Not off topic at all... I'm not sure if it's the same place, but it was on University. Or was it Telegraph? I get them mixed up. It was on whichever is the main street running through town which the BART station is on, not the little uber-hip street which runs straight into the campus' south end. This was ten years ago that I was living there, so I don't remember the details. It was a loose-run place with some racks of used laptops and printers and such, and a few aisles with stacks of open cardboard boxes full of pot-luck parts. Might be the same place you're talking about. It would be good to know if it was still there. I miss the Bay Area.