Semi-OT: Last week's "The Big Bang Theory"

[Richard Kreiss]

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> Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:31 AM
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> Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Last week's "The Big Bang Theory"
> 
> On 5/9/2012 10:38 AM, GCC Consulting wrote:
> [...]
> > Interesting fact:
> >
> > Dave sold me my first Radio Shack Model II computer with profile.
> > That was before he joined the small computer staff.  That goes back a
long
> time (:
> >
> > He was working at the computer center on 5th avenue between 3th and
> > 37th streets if memory servers.
> 
> John Morgan was manager of a small Radio Shack store near my old high
> school.  When the Model I came out, I would stop by on my way home from
> school to play with it.  (A bit different to actually see the computer,
rather
> than some mysterious box halfway across the county at the other end of a
110
> baud phone connection.)
> 
> He was then given one of the first "computer centers" in Mount Kisco,
where I
> taught classes in BASIC over the summer.
> 
> Eventually, he was made manager of one of the Manhattan computer centers
> (the above address sounds like the right area -- it was in walking
distance of
> Penn Station).
> 
> When I started looking for a job, he was working for this place called
"The
> small Computer Company" on west 41st Street.
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody

That computer center was across the street from Lord & Taylor Department
Store.  I started going there when I worked in the Empire State Building.

Eventually I moved to 40th and 7th Ave.  Small computer was just around the
corner from there.

Richard