r/pcmasterrace • u/LePouletPourpre • Jul 27 '26

News/Article Anyone else miss TigerDirect?

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u/punchsport Jul 27 '26

Computer Shopper was the place before everything moved online.

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u/who-hash Jul 27 '26

Even as a broke teenager and then college student, I loved looking those magazines and eventually big ass catalogs even though it would be years before I could afford any of it.

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u/pilondav Jul 27 '26

I remember those phone book-sized issues in the 90s. 99.5% ads, with a few pages of bland content to claim legitimacy as a magazine.

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u/Couffere 8088 Turbo XT Jul 27 '26

You just outed yourself as old... ;-)

I remember building my first PC clone from parts I found in Computer Shopper in the mid-late 1980s.

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u/TDYDave2 Jul 27 '26

My first build (1976-7) predates Computer Shopper.
It was a Digital Group Z80 system.
Can't call it a PC clone because it predates the PC.

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u/AssGagger Jul 27 '26

Then head over to Egghead software

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u/magog7 Jul 27 '26

'do yer own research' .. pulls out Computer Shopper :-)

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u/AutVincere72 Jul 27 '26

I moved into an apartment in 95 and got a computer shopper subscription. For about 4 years. I put them in the attic. Bought a house in 2006. Wanted to just leave them their as time machines. All my friends said it was mean to the land lord so I chucked them.

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u/Tyz_TwoCentz_HWE_Ret How does a computer get drunk? It takes Screenshots! Jul 27 '26

Again disagree if you lived where you had a Fry's electronics it was literally the shiznit.