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Re: The Death Throes of Radio Shack

Posted on 2014-07-06, 03:38

I see Radio Shack being an online only retailer inside of a few years. The brick and mortar stores are just too expensive to maintain for what little sales they do. It's cheaper to staff a single warehouse that serves an entire geographic region than to have hundreds of stores in that region.

Re: Athlon Thunderbird Win98 Build

Posted on 2014-07-05, 03:49

Awwww....and here I was hoping it would be a Slot A build. Seconded. Thirded. Eh, btw, what's the fastest slot A T-bird (not classic) you've ever seen? Were they even released in GHz models? And bjt, what's the PSU you're using? I can't see it from the pics. I've seen them for sale at 1ghz, which …

Re: New guy saying hi (and my Q700)

Posted on 2014-07-05, 03:31

The Quadra 700 is a sweet machine. It's the second fastest machine of it's era (the not as cheap or easy to find IIfx being the fastest), has reasonable expansion capabilities and because it's so compact it fits damn near anywhere you could think of to put it.

Re: Anouther dual Tualatin machine.

Posted on 2014-07-03, 11:49

soviet conscript wrote: Heh, yhea they remind me of nuclear reactor cooling rods. To bad the Tualatin is a poor overclocker. I've seen people push the 1.4ghz chips to close to 1.7ghz already, but those are few and far between. You need a magic chip to get that speed out of them. 1.5 to 1.6 is more …

Re: The Death Throes of Radio Shack

Posted on 2014-07-03, 11:32

Proper Radio shack has been dead for at least 20 years. There are a number of reasons. Outsourcing the electronics industry has taken away the appeal of the hobby as well as access to the physical parts. China subsidises their exports and the shipping costs. Most Western countries do not tax the …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-06-29, 13:21

Wasteland & Fallout are available on GOG for a few dollars but fully appreciate that it's not the same as a physical copy. Yes, but there are also other games with the collections. 15th Anniversary has Redneck Rampage, Shattered Steel, Virtual Pool, Battle Chess, Whiplash, Norse By Norse West, …

Re: What does this dream mean?

Posted on 2014-06-29, 04:43

I had one of those floating/flying/falling dreams once but I'm not sure it was really a dream. At the end of the dream, I felt myself falling but in dreams you don't literally bounce off of the bed and end up on the floor at the end of the fall. I am convinced that something was in the room that …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-06-29, 03:59

I got the Interplay 10th Anniversary and 15th Anniversary collections. The 10th Anniversary is boxed, but the box is poor condition. It has Wasteland in it, so I figured that's probably the cheapest way I'm going to get a legal copy of that game so I went for it. The 15th Anniversary was not boxed, …

Re: The Death Throes of Radio Shack

Posted on 2014-06-23, 04:25

Here in Australia, Radio Shack went by their original name Tandy, and the stores were named as such. They were swallowed up by Woolworths along with Dick Smith Electronics, and slowly killed off. Pity. We just have Jaycar now. At my high school one of the computer instructors was also an employee …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-06-22, 03:17

I picked up a copy of Starcross by Infocom for C64.It is the one in the Commodore folio, not the Infocom box. The folio versions seem to be trailing the boxed ones by a sizable margin so it's worth it unless you really must have all the pack ins that the boxed versions get. On a sad note I lost out …

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