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The big-box that ate the software aisle. Still a store you can walk into. 1994 it was CompUSA’s louder cousin.
https://www.bestbuy.com
The other big box. Software in the back left, car stereo in the middle, bankruptcy in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_City
The warehouse with a training classroom in the back. Dead chain, living wiki. Where the boxed DOS stack sat under fluorescent lights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompUSA
Yellow-and-black software specialty. Pre-Amazon mail order and a storefront that sold Lotus in a box.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egghead_Software
Electronics Boutique and Babbage’s in one surviving mall slot. The pegboard moved; the chain kept the lease.
https://www.gamestop.com
The strip-center parts drawer. Cables, batteries, a Tandy in the window. The chain is a ghost; the wiki is the store.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack
Mall software. Babbage’s + Software Etc. + EB became GameStop. The rack that held the Apogee jewel cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage%27s
