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kscherer
Which way is up?
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
 
2021-04-29, 16:41

Yup. We had one of those MUGs here in Boise. They met at CompUSA in a cold room and whined about, you guessed it, SCSI and the like. 20-something years ago in the Performa days, and these guys spent the monthly meet-up bothering over networking flim-flam and serial this-and-that. The newbies that were trying to get answers (like me) had no idea we were walking into such a vomit-filled crank-hole!

Later on, after I started working at MacLife and right as CompUSA was going under, one of these bozos wandered into the shop to sell the Boise Mac Users Group as the god-send of power-users that our store needed in order to be relevant. If only we would offer all of their members 15% (!!!) off all of their purchases, they would gather in our shop, once per month, for FREE! (i.e. they wanted a rent-free meeting place), and all we had to do was provide coffee and soda, a free room, and a steep discount to all 7 of them!

The owner literally told them to "get out and go pound sand!"

We ain't got no use for SCSI!

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