Trip to CHM - Hotel/Restaurant Advice

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Thu Mar 30 23:38:48 CDT 2017


On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> I recall when John Fry opened his store, the big seller was Canfield's
> Diet Chocolate Fudge Soda.   I thought it was dreadful, but people
> bought it by the caselot.  Fry's had a lot of Everex PC boards, much of
> which was probably returns.   And you could buy a VME system there also.
>
> I still have various connectors and whatnot in the little poly bags with
> the red and white Fry's labels on them.
>
> I bought my turntable and soldering iron tips at Sunnyvale Electronics.
> Points for those who can tell me where that was.
>
> I suspect that if I returned for a visit after nearly 30 years, I'd get
> lost.

. . . and it would be very depressing.

It's been more than three decades since the staffing at Fry's went bad.





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