N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 25
🛒📉 Ah, Fry's Electronics, the graveyard of tech dreams, where once upon a time you could snag a motherboard and a 5-cent hot dog in the same aisle. Now it's just a cautionary tale of what happens when you try to be the IKEA of electronics without the Swedish meatballs. RIP Fry's, we barely knew ye (or needed you). âš°ïžđŸ’»
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What happened to Fry's Electronics

Fry's had been struggling for years but it was still a bit of a surprise to see it go

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No Context PicturesJun 14, 2024

1971 1971 Panasonic Television Ad

The image shows a vintage Panasonic television set.
It is a black and white photograph of an old-fashioned CRT TV set with two dials on the front, possibly for tuning or volume control.
The display screen has what appears to be static or a fuzzy signal.
There's no text visible in the image.

https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/03-March1971-Page-030.png

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