Fred Sampson’s Radio Weblog - Ancient history (from: PubSub: Scoble)
http://radio.weblogs.com/0107659/2005/02/05.html#a959
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Link: http://radio.weblogs.com/0107659/2005/02/05.html#a959
Scoble visits Fry’s:
Got a new computer for my son. Just got Patrick a new computer at Fry’s. Came to $550 after rebates. . .Onelast thing? Fry’s was PACKED. Glad to see Silicon Valley’s economyrocking and rolling again. I remember getting a tour from John Fry ofthe Sunnyvale store (which is where we were — it’s a block from AMD’sheadquarters). That was their first million-dollar-of-sales-day at anystore. I bet they are doing that on a regular basis now.[ Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
The original Fry’s was just off Lawrence Expressway, a few blocks fromthe current Sunnyvale store. It was half convenience store, halfcomputer parts store, not much bigger than your average 7-11. You couldfind, literally, potato chips in the convenience store section a fewfeet away from computer chips in the computer store section.
Here’s a true story: It’s 1983, and my first trip to Fry’s. My officehas a new IBM PC, with the standard 64K RAM. In those days you boughtan add-on memory card from AST, called a Six-Pack, to bring your PC upto its maximum of 640K. And you saved money by populating the boardwith 8K memory chips yourself. So my first purchase at Fry’s was aSix-Pack and chips.
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