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Well, Ack is not exactly Wizard Electronics. Two or three (four?)
years ago, Wizard had to give up their long-held place on Tullie
Road at North Druid Hills and the Expressway. So they moved in with
Ack. Then Ack went out of business. Lots of the inventory was
still there, and Wizard had been given permission to sell it, but
only in large, wholesale quantities. Not in little bits, like I
wanted to buy. :-(<br>
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<div>Ack Radio is now Wizard electronics at the same location.
They are also hiring AV electronics techs. I had to get some
MDA20 fuses a couple years ago, and they were the only game in
town. I saw a sign that said they were hiring and asked them
what the qualifications were, and the dude said you have to
pass a test. I'm like oh... I love a challenge. So I took
the test. It was a strange bit. The test seemed to have been
written in the 80's, and had a couple of problems that seemed
to have no definitive answer.</div>
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<div>Anyhow, the owner of the place offered me a job after that,
but I had to turn it down bc I've been self employed for 25
years and make more on my own. The place is still there with
vintage equipment and vintage techs as well haha. Us old
school electronics techs seem to be a dying breed these days.</div>
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<div> It was closer to a Radio Shack than a seller of
computers, but I really miss Ack Electronics, which used to
be at 554 Deering Road in Atlanta. If you were running
co-ax cable or CAT-5e/6 cable (by the foot or by the roll)
or needed connectors or cover plates or tools, that was the
place to get it. They did lots of business with Georgia
Tech; then Amazon put a shipping center right on Tech's
campus a couple of years ago, and that was the end of Ack
Electronics.<br>
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For people who live near Emory University, there's a great
little place called Trend Technology at Clairemont and North
Decatur, which I highly recommend. The owner's name is <span>Sukru,
and he's always given me good advice and sold me quality
stuff when I've been in the market for used computers or
needed to upgrade components for my existing equipment.<br>
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