Re: DEC retail stores in the 1980s

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_teksavvy.com)
Date: 11/24/04

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    Lee Roth wrote:
    > Anyone remember the DEC retail stores? A few of these
    > stores appeared about the time that the "Super Trio" of
    > systems all appeared in the same form-factor boxes:

    In canada, there was a chain of stores called "DataTerminal Mart".

    Bought a canadian VT52 clone (Cybernex terminal) and a 300bps accoustic
    coupler modem from them in 1981. They had an actual store in a downtown
    shopping mall. They also had a PDP11-in-a-VT-100 product on display (but was
    too expsnive for me as a student entering uni :-)

    Later, that stored moved to industrial park offices selling only to commercial
    acocunts and disapeared.

    Meanwhile, the few stores that carried Commodore Pet and Apple II grew into
    chains here (such as Compucentre) and many still exist today. There was one
    shop that "rented" software for the day. When the government decided that this
    was just too obvious a crime (copying software), they were shut down by the
    RCMP, but re-emerged as a bona-fide computer store and is now part of a chain
    20 years later.

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