<div dir="ltr"><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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). <br></div><div><br></div><div>Sigh...</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 7:44 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>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. <br><br>Yeah. Amazon is death. Worse than IBM.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 16, 2020 3:03:13 PM EDT, Chuck Payne via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto">They had no computers, I sent a text to my son. There were very few parts, Fry's is dying. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:26 PM Ethan <<a href="mailto:dev.null.02@gmail.com" target="_blank">dev.null.02@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">What? Frys sells tons of computers.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:24 PM Chuck Payne via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Even Fry's doesn't have computer stuff, last time I when in July, there were no computers. Sad. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:23 PM Jerald Sheets <<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">questy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Microcenter and Fry’s.<br>
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