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From: sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: 7-11 for techies
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 02:09:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 21 02:09:18 1985
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My roving contact in the Bay Area just filed this late breaking story...

"I'm not sure you're going to believe this. I'm not even sure that I believe
it. Yesterday I went shopping at the Grand Opening of Fry's Electronics. I
don't think you have them back east, but out here Fry's is a big grocery
store chain. I knew somethng was up when I see in their three-page newspaper
ad: 64K dynamic RAM chips advertised next to the diet Pepsi. I kid you not.
Their mascot is "Charlie Chip". They even had some clown dressed up as a
gant chip, dancing around the parking lot. (They DID have hot dogs and
Pepsi for 25 cents in the parking lot, too.) Well, inside what should I
find but a combination convenience store and computer store. On one wall
they had VCRs, on another software, on another, Pepsi, Coke, and potato
chips. Weird. To give you any idea, I bought the following on my visit:
32 64X1 DRAM 150ns chips; an IBM-to-Epson printer cable; a bottle of diet
Coke; saline solution for contact lenses; enzyme for cleaning contact
lenses. I forgot to get Tylenol and Actifed. Oh well. The DRAM chips were
88 cents each. When you figure I was about to go out to Conroy-La Pointe
today and get 9 chips at $19, I saved quite a bunch. I got 256K for my
junior for $29. I know have a 512K junior, which is all I can do with
them memory card in the Quadram Expansion chassis' memory card. Boy, am
I having fun with this thing now! Programs just zip when I use a RAM disk.
I saved the ad from the newspaper for this place. I wouldn't be terribly
surprised if you see a story about it on the news. I mean -
ONLY in California.
Hugs,Me."

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/Steve Dyer
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