| Ante Meridiem Electronics | |
| used electronics shop | |
| 📺 | |
| owner | BabyBlue |
| location | 494 N. Wormwood Avenue Uptown EdgeCity |
Ante Meridiem Electronics (AME) is a used electronics shop in Uptown EdgeCity, owned and operated by Ackerman "Baby Blue" Dodridge.
Location
Ante Meridiem Electronics occupies a small storefont in an old brick building on a busy two-lane city street called Wormwood Avenue in uptown Edge City.
The only available customer parking is on the street, prompting frequent squabbles between AME customers and other drivers when they need to park in front of the store to load large items like CRT televisions. Baby Blue herself parks her personal SUV in a small paved area behind the store, despite her landlady's repeated requests for her not to.
Layout
The storefront space of AME is very narrow, but quite long. Baby Blue often encourages customers entering for the first time to walk all the way to the back of the store while browsing. "That's where we keep all the actually interesting stuff." Most merchandise is piled haphazardly on well-worn commercial shelving or even stacked directly on the floor. Many of the items lack visible tags, leading Baby Blue to simply make up a price on the spot when asked about them.
The front counter of the shop features Baby Blue's computer terminal, which she readily admits she uses more for entertainment and browsing social media than for work. It consists of a repurposed office PC with upgraded components, a cheap keyboard and mouse, and a dim 5:4 LCD monitor. Baby Blue often has a "project" on the counter that she works on when not assisting customers. Usually it's simply a disassembled PC in which she is swapping various components, but she has been known to take on more involved projects on particularly slow business days.
Mounted on the wall behind the counter is a strange LED display with a long number constantly counting up. According to Baby Blue, this is a clock displaying the number of seconds elapsed since midnight on January 1, 1970. Somehow, Baby Blue is able to easily convert this number in her head to a conventional date and time, and she often expresses surprise that others find it incomprehensible.