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On 9/2/2017 4:52 PM, Cydrome Leader wrote:
> Don Seeley <see-sig@fakedomain.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.
>>
>>> Even those silly watches you'd link to your computer by letting the screen
>>> flash made more sense.
>>
>> At the time I had my Palm 5 I was traveling a lot for work and used it
>> to keep track of my calendar & schedule and track expenses. I also
>> played solitaire and a couple of other games on flights and had a
>> couple of good Japanese practice apps.
>>
>> As Barb said, I thought it was the shit at the time. By today's
>> standards it was slightly better than a wax tablet and a pointy stick.
> 
> I didn't even know there were telephone (AMPS?) enabled versions. Still
> seems like a worthless product.
> 

I will never forget when I first noticed one of the carriage drivers 
from another company wearing a Bluetooth headpiece with the blue blinky 
light on it. He had a Palm phone and it made him look even more like the 
douchebag he was.

> One of the more fun non-networked devices I had was thinkpad and a Fujitsu
> tablet computer. The fujitsu was a full-out 386 with windows 3.1 and
> PenDOS and/or stylus software for windows. Laplink was pretty much the
> only way to get data on and off the thing.
> 

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