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Event Management ExpandEvent Management Submenu.Meet the Staff ExpandMeet the Staff Submenu.Despite its profitability, Heiser sold the business in 1982 due to shifts in the computer industry, and dedicated himself to writing and teaching. The Computer Store then sold products from Apple Computer, Kaypro, and Vector Graphic. At the end of 1977, Heiser decided to end his dealership arrangement with MITS as they prohibited the store from selling competing products, such as the Apple II. In Spring 1976, Heiser's store was moved from West Los Angeles to Santa Monica. In December of that year, Paul Terrell and Stan Veit founded similar stores, Byte Shop and Computer Mart, respectively, in Mountain View, California and New York City. Most early customers were hobbyists who wanted to play games. Expansionīy October 1975, Heiser's wife Lori left her software job at the Rand Corporation to help at the store, which was outgrowing its original location. However, MITS insisted on having all orders prepaid and the store sometimes did not have any inventory, despite receiving money from the store and customers. The store carried Altair 8800 kits and grossed $10,000 within its first month. The 1,200 square feet (112 m 2) of space cost $225 a month at the time. Seeing the high level of interest, Heiser invested $10,000 to open The Computer Store in West Los Angeles exactly one month later on July 15, 1975. On June 15, 1975, Heiser attended a meeting of the Southern California Computer Society about the Altair 8800, finding it to be completely packed with an overflow crowd. He had just left his position as a systems analyst at Litton to establish the Arrowhead Computer Company in hopes of opening a bookstore about computers. In May 1975, Heiser attended the National Computer Conference in Anaheim, California, where he saw the Altair 8800, the world's first microcomputer from MITS. Future Apple Computer engineer Gary Shannon with a MITS Altair 680 at The Computer Store.

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