I liked the DEC retail store over in mid Phx. the sales guy was an ex pdp8 customer engineer! leaned much from him! I mentioned metro center in several posts contains places it also harbored the corp. hq for Dataphase ( AZ version of computerland) and also Businessland... I watched them all die... Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 7/14/2017 1:27:29 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason T via cctalk" <[email protected]> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Xerox stores > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 8:13 AM, william degnan via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: >> And don't forget about the IBM Product Centers, bought out in the late 80's >> by NyNex. They sold IBM business products including copiers, typewriters, >> Displaywriters, System 36 accessories, printers and eventually PCs and >> modems and such, diskettes... > > Although I lived mere miles from it, I don't remember ever seeing this > DEC retail outlet: > > http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/content/computing/DEC/ChicagoDECStore.pdf ----------------- There was a DEC retail store here in Mississauga (suburb of Toronto) that looked just like that; still have a printer and some other stuff that I bought there. m
