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• bullsi1911 Posts: 12,419 Senior Member

  February 2021 #2

  Aww.  Used to hit the one in North Austin with regularity,  Sad to see them go

  To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
  -Mikhail Kalashnikov

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• zorba Posts: 25,279 Senior Member

  February 2021 #3

  Just remember your best computer buys, are ALWAYS at Fry's. Guaranteed.
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  

  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."

  )O(
  

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• Spk Posts: 4,832 Senior Member

  February 2021 #4

  I used to by all my cabling, meters and other electronic stuff through Fry's. Dang, that's hurts.

  

  Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain
  How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
  
  

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• Bigslug Posts: 9,858 Senior Member

  February 2021 #5

  It always seemed to me that 'Fries Electronics" was a really unfortunate name choice.
  
  I was never one to do my own electronics, but it's depressing that there seem to now be an insufficient number of folks who do to support a chain like that.

  WWJMBD?
  
  "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee

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• Diver43 Posts: 12,747 Senior Member

  February 2021 #6

  Bigslug said:

  It always seemed to me that 'Fries Electronics" was a really unfortunate name choice.
  
  I was never one to do my own electronics, but it's depressing that there seem to now be an insufficient number of folks who do to support a chain like that.

  Almost everything made today is plug and play.  If it does not work you plug it into an app and it tells you what is broke.  Take off the broken part, plug in a new one and keep going.  Washers, dryer, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators , even our cars are like that.  Small things like hand mixer, radio, hairdryers, we just toss and get a new one.

  Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5

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• rberglof Posts: 2,998 Senior Member

  February 2021 #7

  The last computer I built most parts came from Fry's in Las Vegas. We were in Vegas last January but unfortunately did not have time to go to their store, guess that was probably my last chance.

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• PFD Posts: 1,898 Senior Member

  February 2021 #8

  My first visit to a S Cal store went "where can I find the motherboards"

  "Isle 4, turn right between the modems and power supplies".

  NIRVANA!
  

  
  

  That's all I got.
  
  Paul

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