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.

That's what I'm afraid of...

I don't know what it's like on Windows, but in OS X, the Chrome Evernote web clipper is pretty damned slick. Opera's my main browser (obvs), but I've found myself switching over to Chrome just to clip a page efficiently. It's much better than the general JavaScript applet. It's been picking folders right for me, for instance. Plus better control of what parts of the page to clip. Yet again, I'm jealous about Opera.

I have to say--Tumblr has the most assholish support team I've encountered in a while. I get that not everyone that contacts them knows what they're talking about, but they really treated me like I was stupid, so it took 3 goes round before they would answer what I told them in the initial ticket, and their eventual answer was "switch browsers".

On another issue, I followed a set of steps outlined in a post that came across my dash, and I managed to block one of my accounts from the other, but there's no way in the settings I can find to remove that block. I asked them if they could, and they said, no, I was permanently banned from one of my tumblrs.

How badly designed does a piece of software have to be in order for that to be actually true? I can only imagine there's some reason they don't want to get into that business, but maybe they should think twice about letting users do something irrevocable without any warning anywhere.

(FTR, you can ban anonymous accounts. The post going around said that when you ban the anon that just sent you a message, you can find out who they really are by going into your block management screen. Whoops! Big hole, no? Well, you can't. They don't show up on that screen, so there's no way to remove them...in perpetuity. Also they wouldn't explain what banning that user and IP really means. If I "ban" the IP address of my laptop, does that affect my other accounts? That account itself? TELL ME. They won't.)

The Evernote Chrome plugin is awesome on Windows too. So much so that the complete inability to clip to Evernote in a useful way out of the box on Android really felt like a slap in the face after getting used to it.