File ComputerLand Ad July 1977.jpg thumb right The name changed from Computer Shack to ComputerLand in this July 1977 advertisement. ComputerLand was a widespread chain of retail computer stores during the early years of the personal computer revolution , and was one of the outlets chosen to introduce the IBM PC in 1981. The first ComputerLand opened in 1976, and the chain eventually included about 800 stores by 1985. After this time the rapid commoditization of the PC led to the company s downfall, with most of the retail locations closing by 1990. The company officially ended in February 1999. ComputerLand was founded by William Millard William H Millard . In 1974 he launched a company, IMS Associates, Inc. , to build what was claimed to be the first truly integrated personal computers, sold as kits to hobbyists and the rapidly growing numbers of retailers through small ads in Popular Electronics . The computer, the IMSAI 8080, may not have made Millard s fortune, but his resulting experiences ... Faber an ex IBM Manager , to start a new franchise operation, soon to become ComputerLand. Faber first ... had become one of the computer billionaires. Most ComputerLand stores succumbed to the predation of the box ... Aug 13, 1990 Cite journal last Dryden first Patrick title Computerland Adds Services, Encourage ... books?id OjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg PA24 issn 0199 6649 ref In 1987, Millard sold ComputerLand to Warburg ... Millards Resigns as Faber Takes Over Computerland journal InfoWorld volume 7 issue 40 page p. 12 date ... InfoWorld Jun 15, 1987 Cite journal last Parker first Rachel title Computerland s New Owners Maintain ... books.google.com books?id xTAEAAAAMBAJ&pg PA31 issn 0199 6649 ref Vanstar was the name selected for the ComputerLand ... Christine title ComputerLand drops name and retail stores become service giant journal Network World ... PA24 issn 0887 7661 ref ComputerLand was defunct in February 1999 when, due to financial reporting ... first Jonathan title Once Upon a Time in ComputerLand The Amazing, Billion Dollar Tale of Bill Millard ... more details
in ComputerLand. In the late 1980s Millard relinquished control of ComputerLand. In 1987, he sold ComputerLand to E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co. for about 200 million. He and his family moved to Saipan ... 1985 04 15 65788 index.htm date 1985 04 15 first Michael Brody title ComputerLand publisher Fortune ... accessdate 2011 09 15 title Company News Stock Offer Seen By Computerland date 1988 ... a Time in ComputerLand location New York publisher Simon & Schuster year 1987 isbn 0671693921 References ... more details
to fully assembled units. ref name ComputerLand Between 17,000 and 20,000 units were eventually ... to Excellence publisher IMS Associates, Inc. year 1978 accessdate 2008 10 27 ref ComputerLand main ComputerLand By 1977, the market for the IMSAI 8080 was declining. Millard had decided to take ... Shack the name was changed to ComputerLand following pressure from Radio Shack . ref name pchist ... 2008 10 27 ref ComputerLand retailed not only IMSAI 8080s, but also computers from companies including ... to fund ComputerLand s expansion, and with Millard s attention diverted, IMS Associates, Inc ... name cho ComputerLand stores continued to prosper retailing IBM computers until IBM abandoned the 8 ... 04 15 65788 index.htm title ComputerLand s suddenly poorer boss publisher CNN Money date 1985 04 15 ... more details
location Orlando date 2011 10 09 ref before turning to fully assembled units. ref name ComputerLand cite book last Littman first Jonathan title Once Upon a Time in ComputerLand The Amazing, Billion ... 1978 Jonathan Littman, Once Upon a Time in Computerland The amazing Billion Dollar tale of Bill Millard s Computerland empire , 1987, ISBN 0 671 70218 1 References Reflist External links Commons category ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2009 MicroAge NASDAQ MICA was an American technology sales company based in Tempe, Arizona , United States . It was founded in 1976 by Jeffrey D. McKeever and Alan P. Hald as a hobby computer store named The Byte Shop . MicroAge expanded from a retail storefront to the most widely known franchiser in the computer industry with over 1000 franchises world wide. Its primary competitor at the time was ComputerLand , another well known franchising operation. The company was listed on the Fortune 500 list from 1995 2001. It employed over 6,000 people and generated revenues in excess of 6 billion at its zenith. In 1980, MicroAge opened the first computer store located in a mall in Paradise Valley, Arizona . The store sold computers popular in the early home computer age, such as the Apple II series Apple II , NorthStar Horizon Northstar , IMSAI 8080 Imsai and Altair 8800 Altair computers . In 2000 MicroAge was delisted from the NASDAQ , trading over the counter finance over the counter as MICAQ. In 2001 it filed for bankruptcy, terminated all business and liquidated all remaining assets to pay creditors. One of the founders, Jeffrey D. McKeever, subsequently bought the rights to the name MicroAge and uses this as a doing business as name for Frontier Technology LLC. The new company organized by McKeever has a different ownership structure and legal company name from the original MicroAge. MicroAge is currently headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and is one of the prominent IT reselling companies in the industry. External links http www.microage.com Website for the company currently dba MicroAge Category Companies based in Tempe, Arizona US company stub arizona stub ... more details
Peer M. Schatz August 3, 1965 is the Chief Executive Officer of Qiagen N.V. Schatz grew up in the United States and Switzerland. After his Matura A Levels university entrance diploma , Schatz studied business and social sciences at the University of St. Gallen , Switzerland. He graduated with a Masters in Finance in 1989 and obtained a Master of Business Administration MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School in Business in 1990. Schatz worked in different positions for Sandoz AG and Computerland and participated in the foundation of start up companies in the computer and software trading industry in Europe and the United States. In 1993, Schatz joined Qiagen and paved the way for both the company s initial public offering at the Nasdaq in 1996 as the first German company ever and the subsequent listing at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Germany . Since 2004, Schatz has been Qiagen s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee. In this function, he has advanced Qiagen s strategic focus on sample and assay technologies in the molecular diagnostics, applied testing, academic and pharmaceutical markets. Peer Schatz serves as a member of the Managing Board of PMS Asset Management GmbH and holds director positions of AdvaMedDx U.S. in vitro diagnostics industry organization and ALSSA U.S. Analytical & Life Science Systems Association . Until 2011, he was a member of the German Corporate Governance Commission. ref http www.corporate governance code.de ger download PM DCGK 120117.pdf ref Schatz is married to Nadine Schatz Grandjean Perrenoud Contesse, a Swiss citizen and likewise an alumna of the University of St. Gallen. He is the son of famous biochemist Gottfried Schatz , who co discovered mitochondrial DNA . References references Sources Qiagen Press Website www.qiagen.com Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Schatz, Peer ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT S ... more details
Val J. Golding founded Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange A.P.P.L.E in February 1978 with fellow Apple II enthusiasts Mike Thyng and Bob Huelsdonk at the behest of Max Cook , the local ComputerLand store manager. The first meeting of the group had 15 people at it and within a year, the group had grown to a couple thousand Apple Inc. Apple computer fans. In 1984, he left the group and went to Shreveport, Louisiana to work for another Apple related magazine. Golding was solely citation needed date November 2010 responsible for starting Call A.P.P.L.E. Call A.P.P.L.E. Magazine and publishing All About Applesoft, ref http worldcat.org oclc 10009479?tab details tabs ref All About Dos, ref http worldcat.org oclc 10010068?tab details tabs ref and All About Pascal. citation needed date November 2010 Golding also published several software packages over that time and single handedly citation needed date November 2010 took A.P.P.L.E from the beginning well into the phase where the group became a global operation specializing in software for all levels of users. In 2002, Golding returned to the group as a chairman of the board of A.P.P.L.E. He was also known for his historical documents related to the San Francisco street cars as well as his musical endeavors. Golding died after a long bout with cancer on 2 July 2008 at age 77. References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Golding, Val J ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1930 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2008 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Golding, Val J Category American magazine editors Category 1930 births Category 2008 deaths ... more details
accessdate 19 November 2011 ref A partner in the local, Lenexa, Kansas Computerland store, Jim ... tested the card and the driver on the following Monday. The same Computerland store s other partner, Bruce Burdick, was a member of Computerland s New Products Committee and helped get the Tallgrass product embraced by Computerland nationwide. With IBM s entry into the market, Allen invited a friend .... With the support of Computerland and helped by high gross margins of up to 35 , Tallgrass grew ... more details
multiple issues refimprove January 2012 citationstyle January 2012 pov January 2012 VP Info is a database application for the personal computer . Origin In the early 80s, David Clark met Dr. George Gratzer, a mathematics professor at the University of Manitoba , at ComputerLand in Winnipeg where Dr Gratzer was looking for someone who could program in dBase. Mr Clark had been using dBase II in his consulting practice, but was frustrated by its limitations for reporting on more than 3 tables at a time. While working for Standard Knitting a client of Dr. Gratzer s and Mr Clark s , David undertook to write a report generator that would allow up to six related data files to be in use at one time and run faster than the slow, dBase II . Citation needed date July 2011 Finding the task required creation of a compiler, an expression evaluator and the ability to read and create indices, David soon realized that they had most of what they needed to create an independent language. The year 1985 saw the first appearance of the language, dComp standing for compiled dBase , and Sid Bursten s joining their new company, Sub Rosa Inc., as vice president of marketing. The language was renamed Max , new manuals were written by Dr. Gratzer and printed, and an ad campaign started. Through their partnership in Sub Rosa, David designed and wrote the program while Dr Gratzer wrote the Reference and Tutorial Manuals. For programmers, VP Info had several interesting capabilities POV statement date July 2011 , including the ability to change field names easily, to represent fields in array form, and to set individual bits within strings which enabled the use of bitmaps to represent up to 2,056 logical variables for each string field in the database . Marketing Shortly thereafter, Paperback Software International Ltd. , a publishing firm headed by Adam Osborne of Osborne Books and Osborne Computer Corporation , acquired worldwide marketing rights to Max and launched it as VP Info in 1986. VP In ... more details
Infobox Company company name Computer City company logo Image Computercity.png 200px company type Subsidiary company slogan You can t make a wrong decision when you go to the right store. location Costa Mesa, California foundation 1981 defunct 1998 fate Closed parent Tandy Corporation Computer City was a chain of United States based computer superstores operated by Tandy Corporation the retailer was sold to CompUSA in 1998 and liquidated. Computer City was a supercenter concept featuring name brand computers, software and related products at the height of its success the company had over 100 locations in the United States, plus five in Europe. History In 1981, the original Computer City was founded by Leonard and Myrna Simon in Costa Mesa, California. Len Simon sat on the original Apple Retail Council while Myrna was in charge of HR. Within the first year, Computer City had added stores in Brea and Pasadena, CA and with the help of managers Mike Mostyn, Gordon Klatt and Greg Gadbois ref name gadbois1 http www.dealerscope.com article greg gadbois has stepped down vice president sales service net 403597 1.html Greg Gadbois stepped down as VP sales ref , Computer City expanded to San Diego, Beverly Hills, Encino, Cerritos, and Torrance CA. Computer City was the first independent Los Angeles computer retailers to offer the original IBM 5150 PC along with Sears and ComputerLand. Computer City was acquired in 1983 by Rick and Joe Inatome and now known as Inacomp ref name inatome1 http www.crn.com it channel 18810981 Rick And Joe Inatome ref became the second largest computer retailer in the US with sales over 500M year in computer products. By 1985, market conditions in computer retailing had changed. As computers were less of a mystery to more people, profit margins began to drop. Retailers who offered business to business consultative services to sell computer systems could no longer afford expensive salespeople. Taking the name of the Los Angeles retailer they had purc ... more details
StarDoc 134 is a Dos Linux hybrid BBS running EleBBS maintained by Andrew Baker aka RamMan, Dotel and Dotelpenguin . StarDoc 134 is a Bulletin board system Bulletin Board System that started in the 1990s by Andrew Baker as a hobby. The BBS runs in Fresno California on a dedicated Linux Server. The name was originally chosen to be Star Dock 134, however due to a typo on the original promotion material the name was officially changed to StarDoc to match the typo. Through the years there has been many changes to the look and feel of the BBS. Making 4 major and dozens of minor software changes in its history, it continues to provide entertainment, information and nostalgia for all who visit it. StarDoc 134 now runs a variety of old DOS classics ported to the BBS using emulation, access to other BBS s, internet portals, games, doors, and multi player mud links. Though new development of the system is slow, the BBS continues to run as a type of nostalgia getting a few calls from around the globe a day. Software and hardware history Basic In the early 1990s the BBS ran custom BBS software in Microsoft BASIC . The Software was never named and was simply called Answer.bas . A 8086 ComputerLand computer and 1200baud modem provided the hardware necessary for the BBS. The BBS had to be manually started by the SysOp and user account manually created. User accounts were hard coded into the system. At this time the BBS only supported a small message system, a few online simple games, no multi user chat or file transfers were available. Despite the small number of features the BBS was in use 75 of the day by callers. The BBS was less than 100k in size and ran off of a 720k floppy disk. Quick Basic 4.5 About a year after the BBS opened the SysOp Won a copy of Quick Basic 4.5 at a computer show. The BBS was quickly ported over to Quick Basic 4.5 which allowed for more memory usage, faster execution, and the ability to spawn external modules. The BBS gained a self registration process ... more details
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retailer Computerland in Tacoma, Washington. As an added value to prospective customers David Peugh modified the original program content to work on all of the computers that Computerland company ... more details
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