11 Jan
2007
11 Jan
'07
3:57 p.m.
Richard wrote:
I worked at the local Apricot dealer in Delaware at
the time. I think
that would have been the summer of 1984. The owner was a guy who had been
a salesman at Computerland selling Apple ][s and even a few Lisas, IIRC.
He chose the Apricot as the flagship line for his store. I worked
for minimum wage doing tech stuff and the odd bit of programming for
his customers.
That's pretty much how I got into computing too. Was a heck of a lot of fun at
the place I was at too - relaxed atmosphere and lots of interesting hardware
to futz around with.
It started going downhill toward the end though ('93 or so) as the PC
revolution had happened and 95% of the stuff coming in was just boring old
clones - there was no real fixing going on any more and it was all just about
board swapping :(
No idea when the place closed down, but it's long gone now...
cheers
Jules