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Last time I was in the bay area, I went to Central Computers, and it fills a lot of the niche that Microcenter offers elsewhere in the country. It's one of the
by MarioMan 2y ago
Last time I was in the bay area, I went to Central Computers, and it fills a lot of the niche that Microcenter offers elsewhere in the country. It's one of the few places I can find Raspberry Pis at MSRP (without the high shipping prices from online retailers), and it has enough worthwhile parts for you to build your own PC if you wanted, too.
- dimator 2y agoI love giving them my business when I can. I hope they're thriving, whatever that means for brick and mortar anymore.
- cancerhacker 2y agoSanta cruz Electronics (Bay Area adjacent) sells them as well as passive components and NTE chip replacements. I even went there a year ago to buy a passive SCSI terminator- the guy went in back and came back with a dust covered box marked SCSI $5/per and let me dig for what I needed.
- kstrauser 2y agoI love Central Computers. We needed some weird cable to connect 2 very different devices and I grabbed a coworker to take along for the journey. He was highly skeptical that they'd have something as odd as we needed. They had an entire aisle section devoted to the genre with different lengths and colors. When I need something unusual, and I need it right now, they're the first place I look. I try to throw more common business their way, too, because I want them to be open and available forever.