{"id":7386,"date":"2013-12-08T23:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T23:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-byte-shop-opens\/"},"modified":"2013-12-08T23:16:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T23:16:19","slug":"the-byte-shop-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-byte-shop-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Byte Shop Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-4022\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F12%2Fbyteshop.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4022]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4023\" alt=\"Byte Shop Mt. View,\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6a801__byteshop-300x173.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>December 8, 1975<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Ftechland.time.com%2F2012%2F11%2F22%2Fbehold-some-of-the-first-apple-computer-photos-ever%2F\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Terrell opens the Byte Shop<\/a>, one of the first retail computer stores in the world. Besides that important distinction, Paul Terrell and the Byte Shop are most famously known for ordering the first 50 computers from Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak\u2019s fledgling <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F04%2F01%2Fa-is-for-apple%2F\">Apple Computer company<\/a> in 1976. As the story goes, the Steves initially intended the Apple I to be a kit, where buyers would solder together the chips onto the circuit board themselves. Terrell requested that instead they deliver fully-assembled computers as he was having trouble selling other kits to people who couldn\u2019t put them together themselves. By insisting on a fully-assembled computer (even though the Apple I still lacked a case, power supply, and keyboard), Terrell helped shape the future direction of Apple and the entire personal computer industry. The <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F06%2F05%2Fthe-apple-ii-enters-the-market%2F\">Apple II was the first personal computer to be manufactured and sold as completely assembled units<\/a>, making them accessible to the average user, thus igniting the personal computer revolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F12%2F07%2Friaa-sues-napster%2F\" rel=\"prev\">RIAA Sues Napster<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6a801__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/08\/the-byte-shop-opens\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 8, 1975 Paul Terrell opens the Byte Shop, one of the first retail computer stores in the world. Besides that important distinction, Paul Terrell and the Byte Shop are most famously known for ordering the first 50 computers from Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak\u2019s fledgling Apple Computer company in 1976. As the story goes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2928,1917,2929],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-byte","tag-opens","tag-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}