If you mean "point of sale," no. They are in a large industrial building and the back is a large warehouse called "Electronics Recovery Center." They are a complete recycler of computer equipment down to the nuts and bolts. I've seen old Cray supercomputers scrapped out there. They ship monitors out by the pallet to be recycled. So they are not at all like "Computer Renaissance." They are in an area often spoken of for development into a technology corridor sited between the U of M and downtown Mpls. Right now they have about a hundred P2 IBMs, etc. They have a huge showroom only half used. They guy that manages the showroom, Ed, is an oldster like me and knew some of the same scientists I knew. In our day, computers were a tool, not a toy, and Linux is the only way to reclaim that function. But like trying anything new, everybody is a skeptic and an obstructionist. "Who ever heard of glass wires?," was a challenge I was confronted with when pushing for "supernetwork" infrastructure twenty years ago. You would be a perfect person to get involved, as a Linux advocate and a political activist. But watch out for the Russian immigrants that own the place, they will want to drink vodka with you. (Uffda!) -----Original Message----- From: Joshua b. Jore [SMTP:josh at kitten.greentechnologist.org] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 5:19 PM To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' Subject: RE: [TCLUG] Linux installed at Midwest Electronics showroom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So what are they using the machines for? POS or something similar? Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Rick Engebretson wrote: > temporarily hooked into a nice Dell monitor. But the install went so well > and there was so much interest that if they don't expand the Linux demos > they are poor businessmen. The money saved on Window$ software will buy > most any of their computers. They will need help doing some good installs. > > Any store will do. If the public has a chance to see Linux, it will fly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8ONtzfexLsowstzcRAv+IAJ9yoZrSFuV5nDHtTeCH8GS0EF3dZwCghKz9 gSd5P78ygbapjDo1hb9pR5c= =zCH0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list