Plus, many of the major electronics distributors were either based here or had presence here (Hamilton/Avnet, Wyle, and Marshall at least were within a couple-m

Plus, many of the major electronics distributors were either based here or had presence here (Hamilton/Avnet, Wyle, and Marshall at least were within a couple-mile radius of each other). Fry's also started here, with its first electronics store in a former Fry's Market building on Oakmead in Sunnyvale.