On 07/14/2017 09:00 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > Hmmm, I really don't remember any such thing. I suspect that some > independent computer store chain got an OK to have a big Xerox logo out > on the front. That would be quite believable. Some time in the early > 80's there were computer stores popping up overnight like mushrooms, and > disappearing just about as fast.
Nope--they were real. I recall that the one I visited wasn't that far from the Moore Business Products store. As I mentioned, CDC had storefronts--I still have a Wren II SCSI drive that I picked up at the Twin Cities store liquidation. TI had a store in the Stanford shopping center. --Chuck
