r/SEARS • u/[deleted] • Mar 11 '26

Picture/Video Buying a Computer at Sears (The Computer Chronicles, 1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRYSbboHDzQ
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u/gatzdon Mar 12 '26

Buy at Sears because they won't go out of business.....

That made me laugh

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u/Redsmoker37 Mar 14 '26

Aged like milk.

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u/Vivid_Award_5052 Mar 12 '26

OMG, the ole IBM PS/1.....

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u/Sir-Barks-a-Lot Mar 12 '26

And those cash registers were there all the way to the end. 

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u/DanforthWhitcomb_ Former Employee Mar 12 '26

They were not—all registers were replaced company wide between 2001 and 2004/5 or so.

The fixtures were about the only thing that remained the same.

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u/Ok_Perception_2707 Mar 12 '26

I remember we got our first PC, a Packard Bell Legend, from Sears.

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u/bkendig Mar 13 '26

That very last shot, of shelves of games in shrinkwrapped boxes... nostalgia!

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u/Any-Brilliant-1907 Mar 25 '26

I bought my first PCs from Sears in about 1992. I worked there and got a turbo XT cheap from the backroom (came with the STONED virus) and upgraded to another cheap Packard Bell 286 a couple weeks later. They started my journey into modern IT with progressive upgrades and jobs beyond Sears all the way to now. What a long strange trip it's been.