> https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1977-02/page/n103
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, William Sudbrink wrote:
Wait! It gets stranger. I just squinted hard at that Byte Mag ad.
"Kentucky Fried Computers" is offering a "North Star Computers-FP8 &
disk"???
KFC seemed to have been mostly their STORE, and when they really got going
with products, they started the North Star brandname?
Similarly, you will see "Morrow's Micro Stuff for Thinker Toys".
Continuing the parallel, "Thinker Toys" as a name was killed by CBS as
being too close to their "Tinker Toys" trademark.
Morrow was at 1201 Tenth Street, which is/was a MUCH better neighborhood.
(only one block below San Pablo Avenue, and one block south of Albany
(more upscale), with every block north or east being higher-end
neighborhood) Although Fantasy Junction used to have some space near KFC.
And, of course, everybody moved from Berkeley to San Leandro when they
expanded, for the more industry friendly guvmint.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
