I did Software City between 85 and 88, I think, in London and Michigan.

It's a weird thing to think back to--all those different platforms, and the dinky office software and the Q*bert orDaley Thompson's decathlon or whatevers...

Yeah. When I started working there we had three sections of software, Apple II, PC, and Macintosh. The Commodore 64 section had been dismantled just a little bit before I started. The other big chain in the area was Software Etc. I also remember that San Diego has one of the first CompUSA locations. I think they were originally CompWarehouse or something like that.

Is anyone else having strange behaviors with iOS 6.0.1 Mail app and the mailboxes area? I hit the arrow to choose which mailbox I want to go into, and it flops back to where it was. When I hit the button to move an email into a folder, the side tab opens to select which folder to drop it, and then it pops back out, as if I had hit cancel. When I go to delete a number of emails, as I select a bunch, they all suddenly become de-selected, except the one my finger is just on. It's really starting to annoy me. And keeping me from updating the iPhone to iOS 6.

eta: this is all on my iPad, with it in horizontal view. Not sure if it's doing it in vertical mode or not.

It's kinda sad that softwarecity.com is actually about Software City. It's one page, which includes this paragraph:

The first franchised location opened in Montvale, New Jersey in 1983. Other locations followed quickly. When a national magazine wrote about the new franchised software store opportunities, it referred to Software City as "America's #1 Software Dealer." In 1984, 34 new locations opened. Software City stores opened in Canada, England and Puerto Rico. By the end of the 1980s, Software City had 99 franchised locations.

It says they still exist.

I don't really think they still exist.

At one point Egghead was the largest software retailer in the USA, but the computer superstores killed them. When the huge stores started to really take off Egghead and Software Etc and other software only stores were locked into small footprint retail outlets and didn't have the floor space to expand and compete.

This help?

Thanks, Rob! That did the trick. Hopefully, there won't be any side-effects.

I remember Egghead so clearly!

At the time, I was the Special Projects Juggler for Qualitas (that was my real title), developer of 386Max and Movem. Memory managers that were huge at the time and which became obsolete in the later 90s.

We toured with Softeach, doing product demos and instore trainings. I trained lots of Egghead folks. I can see their logo in my mind like it was yesterday.

Now, if I could only remember important stuff!

I sold a lot of copies of 386Max and other memory managers while I was at Egghead.

I remember one of their early slogans, "For people who can't tell a computer chip from a potato chip." The Professor Egghead mascot. I had so many of those T-shirt and sweatshirts.

Heh, universes converge.

Bob Smith, the Qualitas developer, was a certified genius...but bored easily. Ours was a whirlwind lifestyle, that is for sure. He kept telling me that, if I never missed a flight, I spent too much time in airports. Of course, my job was to get him all over the country for some pretty big-time interviews, etc. I didn't find it all that funny.

We definitely ran with the big dogs, at a time when the software industry was actually fun.

We started off in Bob and Mary's dining room, with revenues of 100K per year. In about six months, we took over an entire floor of a Bethesda high-rise and were raking in 100k every month. Craxy.

Hopefully, there won't be any side-effects.

Not until other browsers start implementing it, it ever, Then it might get interesting.