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I think it must have been a couple of RJ-45 wall sockets at the Phoenix one. By then their computer section was down to a handful of floor-sample cases, no CPU
by hakfoo 4y ago
I think it must have been a couple of RJ-45 wall sockets at the Phoenix one. By then their computer section was down to a handful of floor-sample cases, no CPUs or memory or most other stuff.
I still have my first purchase from when they opened locally in Tempe-- a 14" "Voxon" brand 1024x768-capable CRT monitor.
I had built a 386DX/40 out of cast-off parts and upgrades-- a real freak box with two MFM hard drives and an EGA card-- and sold it for $150 to finance getting a colour screen for my "personal" machine (the family had a new, but terrible Packard Bell Pentium, and I had a 286 I was progressively upgrading-- 386/40, then 486/33, then overclock to 40, for my personal use) I held out for a few months trying to find one at a thrift shop since $150 is a lot of money for a mid-90s teenager, but eventually saw them offering them as store-opening loss leaders. When I got there, the one they promoted was sold out-- I think it was the "US Logic" brand you saw on a bunch of cheap monitors at the time, so they offered a different one with pots rather than digital picture controls, but I preferred that. Hasn't been plugged in in a long time, probably all sorts of dead.