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I worked in a computer store while attending college during this time. We were the only "Computer store" in town, but the local BigBox "furniture store" also s
by UI_at_80x24 4y ago
I worked in a computer store while attending college during this time. We were the only "Computer store" in town, but the local BigBox "furniture store" also sold computers too. None of the staff there knew anything about computers.
We would often have people come into our shop asking questions and then going to the BigChain to buy the PC's.
Well, one day a couple came into the store carrying the flyer for the other place. The couple then asked several questions about the computers, "What does this mean, What does that do, Is this part important... etc" I tried several times during the discussion to steer them towards the products that we sold. It was obvious that they were only using my time to educate themselves so they could 'smartly shop' at the other location. So we get to the part of the listing where the choice was DX vs DX2 (33Mhz vs 66MHz IIRC).
Them: "What does the 2 mean?"
Me: "That's needed if you want to use two floppy drives, both a 5.25" and a 3.5" or just one."
fun times..... =)
*Edit/Note: the 2 in DX2 means that it was clock-doubled. I lied to the customer because they were wasting my time.
- alberth 4y agoThat's a great story. Had no idea about that either. In my case, I had a Packard Bell - which had 1 floppy & 1 CD-ROM. https://www.weavweb.net/2020/09/22/packard-bell-486-dx2-66mhz/ https://www.weavweb.net/2020/09/22/packard-bell-486-dx2-66mh...
- navjack27 4y agoYou had no idea about it because it's false
- UI_at_80x24 4y agoCorrect. I lied to somebody that was wasting my time.
- 1970-01-01 4y agoThose PackardBell CD-ROM games and encyclopedias were very innovative. I have several of those PCs and still have all their CDs. Check out 3D Body Adventure predicting the pandemic: https://youtu.be/VlxyjOLBKbg?t=980 https://youtu.be/VlxyjOLBKbg?t=980
- alberth 4y agoYes!!! I totally remember that and loved it. Thanks for finding the video link. Brings back great memories.