Oh, man. Those places.
There was one on Long Island. I think I got a membership. Went twice, maybe.
The Fry’s in Wilsonville, OR is obviously a former Incredible Universe.
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Grrr Frauenfelder 
You forced me to google the 3 Radio Shacks I worked at in the late 80’s/early 90’s.
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In the mall where I was a Mgmt. Trainee; it’s now an AT&T store . .
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On the ground level of an office high-rise (where i was ‘tested’ as a Mgr. ~~ because it was only busy during the lunch hour and then again from 5-6PM); it’s now a bank.
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The last store is now a mom & pop pizza & sub shop. (And 2/3 of that strip mall is out of business w/ lease signs in the windows!)
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The one in Arlington, TX (one of the first, IIRC) also became a Fry’s. After that, it was more like a Radio Shack – a big, beautiful Radio Shack – in that they had aisles and aisles of resistors etc.
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Somebody get me a cigarette
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The 1000 SL/2 was my first PC, that I used to learn programming and discover the internet (at 1200bps). It was a nice system back in the day, with better graphics and sound than other PC clones at the time. By the time I quit using that PC, I had some kind of multitasking TSR that let me switch between 3 programs and choose how much RAM to allocate to each along with a utility that let me overformat the 720k disks to over 800k. DeskMate was pretty cool back then. I wasted a lot of time playing with its database, spreadsheet, and sound editor.
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“CPU Only”
It was pretty common for users to refer to the box under the monitor as “the CPU” or “the hard drive,” but a commercial? Doesn’t inspire confidence…
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Oh yea! That was my store ! Except for the people. In south Mississippi, nobody dressed like that. Plus, I would redirect people away from the desk mate and next door to get an Emerson pc at wal mart.
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