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ComputerWare: The MacSource was a chain of 10 Macintosh-only retail stores in the greater San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. At one time, they were the largest Macintosh-only reseller in the United States. Guy Kawasaki mentions ComputerWare a number of times in his book, ''The Macintosh Way''. Besides the ten stores, ComputerWare also had a headquarters that held International, Direct, and Corporate Sales Departments, and at one time had a full hardware repair depot and various training centers on the Bay Area. == History == The first ComputerWare store was opened on California Avenue in Palo Alto in 1985 by Drew Munster and Derek Van Atta. ComputerWare was originally incorporated as Lightning Development, doing business as ComputerWare; later the corporation was reorganized as ComputerWest dba ComputerWare after David Lipson bought the company from the original founders. The Corporate Sales department was formed in 1987. In 1988 a separate Headquarters was set up at 2800 West Bayshore Avenue in Palo Alto to house administrative, hardware repair, Corporate Sales, and other departments that were out-growing the floor above the Palo Alto retail storefront. In May 1989, ComputerWare expanded to two stores with the opening of their Sunnyvale store on Lawrence Expressway near Fry's Electronics. Then three more stores were opened in rapid succession: the San Francisco store was opened in November in the heart of the financial district. Stores 4 and 5 were opened in December 1989 by acquisitions of MacOrchard in Berkeley and the Computer Center of Santa Cruz. August 1990 brought a sixth store in San Rafael through acquisition of MacGarden. This location was still in the Macintosh-only retail business as the Marin Mac Shop until mid-2010 when it closed. 1992 brought the addition of two new stores: a seventh store was opened in Dublin in October, and then in November store number eight was opened in Sunnyvale on El Camino through acquisition of MacShop. The hardware repair depot was moved out into its own building, across 101 on East Bayshore from the corporate headquarters in 1993. 1994 brought about the last store openings, building the ComputerWare retail chain to its height of ten stores. The San Mateo was opened in March on El Camino Real, and the Walnut Creek store was opened in December. April of that same year also brought about the move of one of the two Sunnyvale stores (the El Camino MacShop location) to Santa Clara, thereby solidifying full Bay Area coverage. In November 1995 the lease ran out on the Palo Alto headquarters location, and a larger facility that could house both the headquarters, warehouse, and hardware repair depot was found at 605 West California Avenue in Sunnyvale. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Computerware」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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