[ale] Where have all the computer store gone

[Jeffrey Layton]

I moved to the Atlanta area in 1998 (Roswell). I moved from a very small
town about 5 miles from the northern NY border. 15,000 with both
universities in session. Everything was mail-order. Canada didn't have any
good computer stores and Syracuse (about 2-3 hours away) didn't really have
anything.

M\n Roswell, my wife would sometimes let me prowl the computer stores on
the weekends. CompUSA, Computer City, Microcenter, etc.I was in heaven or
like a pig in slop. I would buy a Computer Shopper and study it all
weekend. Then on Mondays at Lockheed all of us engineers would share our
observations of the Computer Shopper. For a geek, I enjoyed every minute of
it.

If someone bought something we had to learn all the reasons why they bought
it, did they like it, what are the pros and cons? The biggest discussion
was saved for hard drives :)  When a drive died it was like everyone had a
drive die. When a drive died we spent lots of time discussing the brand,
the model, the specs, and speculating on why it died.

Now I buy on-line when I have to or go to Microcenter. Microcenter is my
only saving grace. Sometimes I pick up an item in the store that I have
been eyeing but is maybe not on the family budget. I walk around with it
for a while and I feel better. I know that sounds weird but I can't do that
with mail-order.

I don't buy much from Amazon. If I buy on-line it is usually from Newegg
although I've had trouble with them. It's not the same as buying things in
store but it's where we are (sadly).

Sigh...

Jeff


On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 7:44 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Laptops are online. Walmart carries them. Microcenter in Duluth is still
> good. GIM is on Northside Dr north of GT. There's still a few on (?)Dawson
> Dr(?) Just off Jimmy Carter east of I85.
>
> Yeah. Amazon is death. Worse than IBM.
>
> On October 16, 2020 3:03:13 PM EDT, Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> They had no computers, I sent a text to my son. There were very few
>> parts, Fry's is dying.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:26 PM Ethan <dev.null.02 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What? Frys sells tons of computers.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:24 PM Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Even Fry's doesn't have computer stuff, last time I when in July, there
>>>> were no computers. Sad.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:23 PM Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Microcenter and Fry’s.
>>>>>
>>>>> That’s about it these days.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Anyway, does anyone have a good computer store to go too?
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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