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Re: Microcenter

From Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
Newsgroups chi.internet
Subject Re: Microcenter
Date 2017-08-23 13:15 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <onjv6d$fn2$1@reader2.panix.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <mcchan$6r$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com> <MPG.2f53e1a715aa59f5989eef@news.speakeasy.net> <ns7sgu$1th$2@remote5bge0.ripco.com> <olvioi$jg8$1@dont-email.me> <alpine.DEB.2.10.1708050934500.10922@sghcrg.sghcrg.pbz>

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barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, dye wrote:
> 
>> In article <ns7sgu$1th$2@remote5bge0.ripco.com>,
>> Chicago Paddling-Fishing  <jwn@ripco.com> wrote:
>>> Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>>>> In article bje@ripco.com says...
>>>>> Yeah but at least they are trying, look where Radio Shack is today.
>>>>>
>>>>> Keep in mind when MC opened (1997/98?), the computer market was totally
>>>>> different from today. They need to keep changing shit to get people in the
>>>>> door.
>>>
>>>> Remember Handy Andy?  They tried to charge me $108 for a 12 pack of
>>>> fluorescent tube bulbs because the cashier thought it was $8/bulb
>>>> instead of $8/12 pack.  Had to get a manager to figure that out.
>>>
>>>> Microcenter hasn't changed much since they opened.  After a few years
>>>> opening they became a better deal for a lot of things than that monthly
>>>> COD computer fair.  Do they still do that?
>>>
>>>>> I'm not a gamer but it's obvious from posts, news articles and feeds
>>>> that
>>>>> the game market is mostly "online" these days. I don't quite get what Steam
>>>>> is, but it's obvious it's some pay to play system. That and all the console
>>>>> machines that only work over the net. With all that going on, I can't see
>>>>> where carrying them in a store works anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe MC is trying to take a stab at Fry's, although I haven't been out to
>>>>> the one in Downers Grove (or wherever the hell it is) in a while, last time
>>>>> I was there they had a couple aisles dedicated to loose "parts". Seems like
>>>>> a waste of floor space but who knows.
>>>
>>>> I'm not a gamer either.  I was looking for PS2 games in some bargain bin
>>>> but now PS3 are the bargain platform.  Microcenter used to have those
>>>> bargain bins of random stuff that you could spend a lot of time looking
>>>> through for something you might need and get it cheap.  They don't do
>>>> that anymore.
>>>
>>> They still have bargan bins (well, more like tables).
>>
>> My big MC bargin bin score was circa 1998...someone had returned a Palm
>> Pilot 7, which was better than the Palm 5 I went to buy, but also
>> *included wireless celluar*.  The people who returned it had
>> activated a data plan and it worked wireless for free for about a
>> year and a half.
>>
>> Not that it was fast or anything, probably an analog cellular connection,
>> but this was living large in 1998.
> 
> Hah!
> I'm surprised they didn't cancel the account, but good for you!
> 
> I had two different Palm devices, and while they were fun to have, and I 
> could read my email on them, but looking back at them, boy, were they 
> clunky compared to our smartphones.

Maybe somebody here can remind me about all of this.

What the hell was a palm even for? I don't recall anybody who ever had one 
being able to explain what it really did other than looks real stupid 
hanging off an belt next to a two way pager. I don't recall them even 
having "basic functionality" like being able to exchange "electronic 
business cards" or anything like that by pointing them at each other.

Even those silly watches you'd link to your computer by letting the screen 
flash made more sense.

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