Cheap computer bits

[ciphergoth]

Here's an easier one. Where do you go in London to buy things like cheap spindles of CD-Rs? In the wonderfully dodgy Silicon Group in Edinburgh, you can buy 100 CD-Rs for £18, with no packaging except a circle of plastic at either end and shrink wrap. I also need to buy a replacement keyboard, black ink for a HP DeskJet 690C, and a cable that plugs a sound card into a hi-fi.

Is there a particularly good shop on Tottenham Court Road that's worth checking first, or are the best bargains to be had away from TCR?

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[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Maplin ( http://www.maplin.co.uk/ ) are worth a look for some of these things these days - they've a TCR branch, and I've seen (I think it was there) vast metal tins of CDRs which I think were fairly cheap.

Failing which, the following shops are on TCR:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/ (just say no ;)
http://www.askdirect.co.uk/
http://www.microanvika.co.uk/default.asp
http://www.thedigitalcentre.com/
http://www.sunrise-online.co.uk/
http://www.gultronics.co.uk/og/index.html
http://www.jessops.co.uk/

(although not all are PC shops and some websites really suck)