"Fred N. van Kempen" <waltje(a)pdp11.nl> wrote: Fry's Sunnyvale location has moved twice. The first was on the other side of Lawrence, approximately behind Coco's. It was as Al said, the sort of place you could go for ICs, connectors, Amiga RKMs, potato chips, soda pop, and aspirin. I'm guessing that the big difference is that Fry's now uses the grocery-store model in the parts aisles: rather than hire knowledgeable buyer(s) to select a good range of stock, sections of the parts aisles are rented to to distributors who supply the stock (and maybe even put it out on the shelves). So you get very narrow, single-vendor selections of some types of parts. That and, well, the target market is everyone (instead of just Sillycon Valley geeks) now that computers are just a special case of consumer electronics. -Frank McConnell