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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.

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