Comments on: Ye Olde Local Computer Store http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/10/20/ye-olde-local-computer-store/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Van Ly http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/10/20/ye-olde-local-computer-store/comment-page-1/#comment-74751 Van Ly Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:44:58 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=12363#comment-74751 With grid, asynchronous, shards in the cloud and very affordable devices like

http://www.raspberrypi.org

anticipating the IPv6 Internet of everything that is just around the corner, think, wearable computing, think, ambient intelligence, Ray and his wife may want to re-focus their energies/expertise to build and sell kits, sell fully constructed kits at higher margins, host hobbyist hacker spaces and hopefully make a tidy profit.

]]> By: Andy Weinberger (yes, I am related) http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/10/20/ye-olde-local-computer-store/comment-page-1/#comment-74696 Andy Weinberger (yes, I am related) Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:29:22 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=12363#comment-74696 That is similar to what happened in my town in suburban New Jersey. We had a good computer maker and repair store run by Ray (hmm-is there something about that name? Ours was from Italy originally) and his wife. They fixed a lot of local machines and sold some, including one to me. Ray did a lot of network maintenance and set up locally and in NYC. They also had a better DVD rental collection than the Blockbuster next door for many years. Even when their collection was not as big, it was still much easier, and nicer, to rent from them, and they were cheaper.

They moved a few miles away and I went there for repairs occasionally. Recently I saw their shop was closed and I emailed them from their website. They are now working out of their house. Too bad about these places.

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