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ComputerLand was a widespread chain of retail computer stores during the early years of the microcomputer revolution, and was one of the outlets (along with Computer City and Sears) chosen to introduce the IBM PC in 1981. The first ComputerLand opened in 1976, and the chain eventually included about 800 stores by 1985.
The ad was made in the style of a 1985 mall advertisement, and includes an image of a "newly opened" Waldenbooks store among its offerings. In reality, the crew of Stranger Things did a cosmetic restoration of a portion of the Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, Georgia , returning authentic signage and storefronts to the mall to represent many ...
Al's Auto Supply – Chain that operated in Washington, California, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Alaska; purchased by CSK Auto.Founded by Abe "Al" Wexler in Everett, Washington in the late 1950s; [1] [2] sold 15 store chain to Paccar in 1987; [3] Paccar sold chain (along with Grand Auto) in 1999 to CSK Auto which eventually rebranded stores as Schucks.
B. Dalton had stores in 43 of 50 states in 1978, and was second to Waldenbooks (then the U.S.'s largest bookstore) in store numbers, but posted higher profits than its rival. [3] [4] A flagship store opened in Manhattan in December 1978, [3] and between 1983 and 1986, the chain revived the Pickwick name as a discount bookstore.
On this day in 1985, the first Blockbuster video store rental opened in Dallas, Texas. Blockbuster was founded by David Cook, who at the time had owned a computer software business. However, it ...
The Spectrum sold with two memory options, a 16 KB version for £125 or a 48 KB version for £175. May 1982 US IBM launch the double-sided 320 KB floppy disk drive. July 1982 UK US Timex/Sinclair introduced the first computer touted to cost under $100 marketed in the U.S., the Timex Sinclair 1000. In spite of the flaws in the early versions ...
It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December. 2000 : America Online merges with Time Warner. While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time.
[11] According to a 1985 issue of the store's Whole Earth Access Mail Order Catalog, (named after, but not connected to the Whole Earth Catalog which it also sold): Our Berkeley store opened in 1969, inspired by but independent of the Whole Earth Catalog. It began by carrying books, a few woodstoves, a few power tools, and back-to-the-land ...