Oh I don't know...I think these had some interest in 1975 http://vintagecomputer.net/altair-poptronics.cfm
Also take a look at the run of Byte mags published in 1975, plus People's Computer Company Newsletters from 1975. On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Richard Loken <richar...@admin.athabascau.ca> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Murray McCullough wrote: > >> A momentus event happened 40 years ago around this time, July 1975, >> the world's first computer store opened in West Los Angeles, called >> Arrow Head Computer Store, tag-lined, 'The Computer Store'. It was >> opened by Dick Heiser. How time has flown by! > > What did they sell in 1975? > > I remember reading articles in "73 Magazine" circa 1976 about the > interesting things that could be done with an 8008, some 2102s, and 500 > linear feet of wirewrap but I was doing broadcast elctronics maintenance for > a living and far more inclined to race bicycles than dabble in electronics > in my spare time. Five years later I working in computing instead of > broadcasting and everthing started to change. > > -- > Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father > Athabasca University : but you have to earn > Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" > ** richar...@admin.athabascau.ca ** : - Lynn Johnston > -- Bill vintagecomputer.net
