December 8, 1975: San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneur Paul Terrell opens The Byte Shop, one of the world’s first computer stores — and the first to sell an Apple computer.
Years before Apple would open its own retail outlets, the Byte Shop stocks the first 50 Apple-1 computers built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
The Byte Shop computer store: A stroke of genius
Today, the idea of selling computers in a store makes perfect sense. Add some eye-catching architecture and a clean, luxury-goods-inspired layout, and you have the template that allowed Apple’s stores to become the most profitable retail outlets on a square-foot basis by 2014.
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