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Fry's Electronics filled this role rather amazingly back in the '80s (before they transformed themselves into the low-end version of Best Buy that they seem to
by trav4225 11y ago
Fry's Electronics filled this role rather amazingly back in the '80s (before they transformed themselves into the low-end version of Best Buy that they seem to be today).
- kjs3 11y agoMy Fry's still has a pretty good amount of electronic "maker" stuff, about 4 retail isles including the test equipment. Of course, that's 4 isles in something like 200k sq ft of "stuff", but it's an awful lot more than anyplace else.
- linker3000 11y agoI was in The San Jose (Hamilton) store a couple of weeks back, looking for the Tenma logic probe that their web site said was in stock, but neither myself or the staff could find it. I suspect they didn't really know what it was. I wanted the probe for a 6502-based replica of the Acorn System 1 I am building.
- kjs3 11y agoI think it's a very safe bet the staff don't know anything about the test equipment. My experience is that I wouldn't count on them to be familiar with much more than the latest XBox or PS4 game, with the occasional overachiever knowing PCI-e graphic cards.