A Time of Magic

It used to be that there were whole sections of computer science courses dedicated to very specialised input devices but such things have long since passed into the electronics courses. That’s the case with the input devices themselves too.

Thus if you want to get something slightly out of the ordinary it’s often the electronics retailers that stock it. You’d need to get a very large computer shop to find a barcode scanner these days I suspect. That’s more obviously (in an odd kind of way) an electronics produce but sometimes it can be very difficult to track down what would formerlly have been very much a computer component like a graphics pad. Well, you can get the little toy models but I found it quite an ordeal to track down a sensibly sized one a year ago.

So if you’re looking something that little bit out of the ordinary for your computer don’t neglect the electronics shops.

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