flyaway840@hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> The shops with the resistors etc had nothing, no batteries, no
> English keyboard or Fujitsu hard drive (which is all this stupid IBM
> Think Pad R52 A12 will take, all others it says it does not support).

There are dozens of shops that have laptop parts. You are pretty stupid 
if you think you can arrive in a country you don't know and don't speak 
the language but expect to go straight to a shop that has exactly what 
you want. You fucked up and you should accept that.