Floppydays Vintage Computing Podcast

Floppy Days 127 - James Shackel Estate Haul and Paul Terrell Intro

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Floppy Days 127 - James Shackel Estate Haul and Paul Terrell Intro Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper  Hello, and welcome to episode 127 for June, 2023 of the Floppy Days Podcast, with your host, yours truly, Randy Kindig! I'd bet there are few listeners who don’t know the name Paul Terrell.  Paul has been credited with essentially jump-starting the personal computer industry in many ways, not the least of which was by buying the original Apple I computer from the just-getting-started Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and selling it in his equally-famous computer store, The Byte Shop.  This was the first personal computer retail store in existence.  Paul was also a member of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club and attended the West Coast Computer Faire.  He was involved in the development of both the Exidy Sorcerer and BYT-8 computers and he later went on to start ComputerMania Inc. which was a chain of computer stores created with the purpose of renting comp