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| From | Chicago Paddling-Fishing <jwn@ripco.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | chi.internet |
| Subject | Re: Microcenter |
| Date | 2017-11-05 09:08 +0000 |
| Organization | Ripco Communications Inc. |
| Message-ID | <otmkdt$5rt$4@remote5bge0.ripco.com> (permalink) |
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Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>I never had one that wasn't also a phone (the Treo line). That one had early
>smart phone stuff on it. It was much easier to deal with contacts than on the
>flip/candybar phones of the day. Calendar too. IIRC, it had a crappy email
>client. From there I went to a Nokia 9300. Symbian, did okay with email, had
>an ssh client, etc. Then it was Android from there.
The sidekick (from Danger Inc) made a great replacement for Palm. Not quite
a smartphone, but close enough to put a lot of distance between it and Treo.
--
John Nelson
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