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You'll find a 120GB drive for $29.

Lots od little gooides, some though are only in store and only for a few hours "While supplies last".

For example Office max has a Western Digital 200 gig drive for $59.99 - but that is both Friday and Saturday and you need to send in 2 rebates. Only one reabte per customer.

A better price is over at Staples where they have a 200 gig drive for $29.94, only one mail in rebate for this. Alos it is only a 4 hour deal, from 6 am - 10 am.

CompUSA has lots of things for cheap that may be of use and they open up at 11:59 PM tonight for all night shopping...talk about beating the rush. If you live close to one and feel like shopping for stuff like this at midnight go for it. The nearest one to me is about 30 or so miles away and I have a child asleep so I am out of luck for that one.

Computer Geeks is having some sales starting today through Sunday. Such as a refurbished Maxtor SATA 250 gig drive for $78.99.

There are deals out there, many more than are listed as well, but you have to be at the store(s) when they open...last year Best Buy has lots of great deals and if you were one of the lucky few camped out and in the store at 5 am you probably got one of the deals.

I went by Fry's at about 8:30am... parking lot was full, with about a dozen cars lined up at the curb to take the larger boxes. Two men were loading a 62" Mitsubishi DLP RP TV into a pickup bed. Same model as the one I bought last March for $2,800 (a steal--retail was $3,500). Today's price was $1,999.

Fry's is a huge "warehouse" store, and at one end there are about 30 checkout counters. Today, the line waiting for those counters snaked around the aisles, almost back to the entrance. The Fry's lady marking the end of the line said it would be a 2 hour wait to get to those 30 registers. Unbelievable.

I HAD gone to buy a $67 DVD player, but of course it had sold out shortly after the store opened at 5am.

Anyway, there's always next year.

I so miss Fry's. The "Tiki" one was my second home, although I really love the 50's Sci-Fi themed one in Burbank musch better. it was one of those things when it first opened I slapped my head and thought "Now why didn't I think of making a store look like this?"

I too, love the Burbank Frys, it's my fave. I hate the Anahiem one that's got the space shuttle in it. Always looks more dirty than the others. However the Frys in Phoenix near the airport doesn't really have a theme, it's in an old Universal Electronics store, and it's monstrously bigger than the Burbank store, but boring. I can't wait to see the melted jeep again when we're there for the HDV tour in a couple weeks.

The one up here in Portland had once been one of the Radio Shack "Incredible Universe" stores, and it's not themed at all. I remember at the entrance you had to write down your name, address, and phone number just to get in the store. Of course, most people were ticked off by this intrusive policy, and they stopped it after a while.

Anyway, a year or so later it turned into a Fry's. I'd never heard of a Fry's before, but I guess they have quite a few stores now. I also remember how some of my associates based in Pennsylvania couldn't wait to get out to Portland on business trips just so they could stop by there.

Fry's is a huge "warehouse" store, and at one end there are about 30 checkout counters

I didn't know they had any stores that small :O)

The Canoga Ave. location (Western San Fernando Valley, just off the 101) has 68 checkout counters... More stuff than the Burbank store and a brighter interior.

Canoga Ave? Is that where Canoga Camera is? I bought my Nikon from them online...nice people. Frankly, I avoided the shopping experience today. I saw enough on the news. I just bought a new computer and I refuse to look at any prices for a while.. might hurt my feelings to find it cheaper at this point.

Fry's was a San Jose grocery chain in the 60's and 70's. One of the owner's sons, John Fry, wanted to have an aisle to cater to the Silicon Valley hobbyists who were building things. When they saw the profit on the electronics aisle was far higher than the groceries, the family sold the grocery chain to Lucky's (now owned by Albertsons) and opened their first Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale. No theme, just a comparatively small industrial location. In keeping with their origins, they had an aisle with engineer food (chiups, sodas, candy, etc). Their second store was in Fremont in a smaller industrial location. They outgrew the first store in just a couple of years and Fry's opened their first themed store across Lawrence Expressway from their original store. It was a giant computer. The exterior was painted as a giant chip (IC), and the inside had huge components everywhere. They added other Bay area stores, selecting a new theme as they went along. Brokaw Road was "The Amazon", Palo Alto was "Western". Some time later even the giant chip was too small and they moved into the old Singer-Link building just a few blocks away. There is a theme here, but it's more on the history of Silicon Valley. Ironically theur history memorabilia and photographs on the walls never reflected on the history of the very building they were occupying. The Singer-Link building is where the Singer company built the Link IFR trainer for the Army Air Corps/ Air Force during WW-II. They stopped making the Link trainer in the late 1960's and the building remained vacant until the Fry's moved in.

I've thought of doing a documentary, but who would buy it?

Fry's.