Computer Stores - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Aug 2020

The LA Times called it the first computer store in a story in December
1975.  The first ad for the store ran in July of that year.  I've put
scans of the article and the ad here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/S53vBGs6irzqoLR37 

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 When dozens or hundreds start up within weeks or months of each
 other,
 every one is important, and most are interesting, but "FIRST" or
 "STARTED
 THE TREND" (implying being the "first") cease to really mean
anything.
...

 It's generally better to never use the word "FIRST"; there is almost
 always a lesser known one that was earlier.

 The trend from being a sideline within a business, to becoming the
 primary focus of the business can seem anticlimactic, but is what marks
...
  the core of the transition.
 Think of Fry's, NLS, etc.

 On Sat, 22 Aug 2020, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:

 On 8/22/2020 9:53 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 8/22/20 8:52 AM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
>> 45 yrs. ago last month, mid-July, Dick Heiser started a new  industry, the
 >> retail computer store. It opened in West
L.A. under the name  Arrow Head
 >> COmputer Company. aka, The Computer
Store. This began the  direct marketing
 >>> of microcomputers to hobbyists, later to the masses of the middle
...
  class,
 >> albeit a small market 45 yrs. ago.
>>
>> Happy computing.
>>
>> Murray  ?
> Does this precede Paul Terrell's Byte Shop #1 in Mountain View,  CA?

 --Chuck

 Not soon after, Dave and Tom Freeman, Advanced Computer  Products in Santa
  Ana, CA.
 thanks
 JIm 