“A young boy looking at Acorn Electron computer and monitor in a WHSmith shop in Waterloo, London, UK, 6th December 1984.”pic.twitter.com/8ivIf0K0ao
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A bad photo of what seemed like a cool store in New Zealand: https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2018-08-23-viscount-electronics.htm …pic.twitter.com/KRXdZB2gyq
A little newer, but still cool – a lot of detail in the window.pic.twitter.com/B60HR5EDXS
Vancouver’s The Byte Shop (later Byte Computers), 1978. https://vancouvertrueborns.com/post/131586398776/who-sold-the-first-apple-computers-in-canada …pic.twitter.com/1R1nqoa7PJ
“Man using IBM computer at retail store.” (IBM Displaywriter, it seems.) https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/man-using-ibm-computer-at-retail-store-news-photo/50312546?adppopup=true …pic.twitter.com/FuwtpxDUX0
(If you can name possibly the most beautiful laptop that’s hiding in the last photo, we can be friends!)
Here we go, @marzagao got it right! It’s Data General One, an early laptop of truly beautiful proportions.
I still have a framed poster of it somewhere. *swoon*pic.twitter.com/EZRtm4svud
A great submission from @josch:
“Customers at the computer-section of a Karstadt department store in West Germany. (1983)”pic.twitter.com/O8klVRV3mU
And, I really love this, from @thomasafine: “Shopping for the latest in computer and video games at Toys 'R' Us, 1983”pic.twitter.com/XK3FNcp83W
This one is very good. https://twitter.com/0xdeadbeefcafe/status/1280939012727898112?s=21 …https://twitter.com/0xDEADBEEFCAFE/status/1280939012727898112 …
I reached out to Dick Heiser by @ShortFormErnie’s recommendation, and he shared two extra photos. Love the energy of the first one – Gary Shannon happy with his creation of Very Tiny Language (smaller even than Tiny Basic!).pic.twitter.com/KiEH9pWxsA
I bought and scanned this photo for you! “Jay Fulce tries out a new wordprocessing program on an Apple Power Macintosh at the Computize Store at 9647 Southwest Freeway. Fulce recently purchased a Macintosh for his home for personal and business use.” Houston, TX, 1994pic.twitter.com/sxq0Uj5m6x
A 1985 photo: “Skip Mandich, owner of Milwaukee’s 2nd Bytes computer store.”pic.twitter.com/s12X5I5lgn
I’ve since discovered there’s a whole category of “computer store owner or employee poses typing on the best machine being sold in said store.”pic.twitter.com/KdsQaADBy8
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