Byte Shop

The Byte Shop was a chain of retail computer stores founded in Mountain View, California, by Paul Terrell and Boyd Wilson in 1975. It was among the first retail establishments in existence dedicated to computer products. It is perhaps best known for being the first to order Apple Computer's first ever product, the Apple I, in 1976. At its peak, the Byte Shop operated 73 stores in the United States and a single store in Japan. In November 1977, Terrell sold Byte Shop's parent company Byte, Inc., to Logical Machine Corporation, who continued to run the Byte Shop for several years.