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Not really.
They had a lot of parts for radio and electronics hobbyists. Also they sold some of the first personal computers like the TRS-80 and Tandys.
RadioShack never transitioned well in the larger pc market like microcenter. They never sold motherboards or video cards. It was never a build your own PC shop.
I used to work at Microcenter back in like 2014. Made a lot of money in the build your own department!
Their motherboard cpu deal is hard to beat. I've used it for several builds.
I still use a Cooler Master HAF 912 case from there too. I love that beast of a case. I run it with the side panel off so I can see all my pretty LEDs. Lol
Lol, I still have and use that same case at home. It's a horrendously ugly case by today's standards, but it's got good airflow and it has housed three builds over its time. Mine has the glass side panel, though.
nice nice! the best deal was working there. our employee discount was "cost+5%". low margin items like PCs, laptops and mobos/cpus didn't do much. but high margin items like cables, recordable media any of the "general merch" was incredible. high-end HDMI cables that retail for $20 would get discounted to a dollar or two.
if it wasn't for a house fire I'd still have my PC I built there. when the 4770k was the flagship CPU.
oh and Intel would sell us i7 CPUs for like $100 when we did their training course
Well most pc shops have closed their shops anyway so I don't see how that could have saved them. I think they can make a comeback by providing 3d printing services for hard to find parts. They just got into the crypto game which I find a little strange like if they officially ran out of ideas.
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