Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-31 Thread Gary Thompson
To me Fry's is not what it used to be. I remeber the old days when I had business in the Bay area making the pilgrimage to Fry's just to gawk at all the electronic components and sub-assemblies for sale. The Fry's near me here in Austin now is just another big box consumer appliance reseller ala

Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-31 Thread Gary Hurst
i'm not impressed by fry's here in gwinnett. little sales help and none of it competent. you have to wait on line 3 times to get anything (first a line to pull the part, then to pay, then pass through security). i've only been there once and that was one time too many. On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at

Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Thomas
The one in Houston (Sugar Land actually) has a lot of geek kids working there, they build computers and write software in their sleep. I was there a few weeks back, wandered over to the telescope/camera section, some older guy asked me if I wanted help. Turns out he was a high school physics

Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-29 Thread Mitch Haley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one Terabyte hard drive caught my eye because I used to be Chief Engineer of a computer facility for a major insurance company. And here I was thinking you were some 25 year old who recently got out of college, and had been working on a PIC controlled W116

Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-29 Thread LarryT
- Original Message - From: Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one Terabyte hard drive caught my eye because I used

[MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-29 Thread Curt Raymond
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:34:48 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info To: Mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I know from reading the mails that a lot of you are interested in electronics

Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-29 Thread Gary Hurst
is a must in those situations. In my classroom I've only got 24TB and I've only got 250GB drives so 96 drives... -Curt Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:34:48 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info To: Mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content

Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-29 Thread jfreezn
with archaic state computers.? Arkansas comes to mind (sorry Clintons, et all). Jim in Phoenix -Original Message- From: Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 4:32 am Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info [EMAIL

Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-29 Thread Curt Raymond
PB petabyte, please let people say pet a byte and not peat a byte It exists too, I've already seen 1PB in action. -Curt Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:19:45 -0400 From: LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes

Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-29 Thread Curt Raymond
Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 there is one 5 miles from me in georgia - Never miss

Re: [MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-29 Thread John Robbins
Mitch Haley wrote: And here I was thinking you were some 25 year old who recently got out of college, and had been working on a PIC controlled W116 climate control for a class project. That would be me... never got around to finishing that project up. Although all I have left to do is

[MBZ] OT: Electronics Retail Store info

2008-03-28 Thread JFreezn
I know from reading the mails that a lot of you are interested in electronics, and always looking for a source and a good price. Many of you may know of Fry's Electronics _www.outpost.com_ (http://www.outpost.com) but since they only have stores in the largest cities, many may not. Frys