XPost: comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.atari.8bit   
   From: impmon@tds.net   
      
   On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:13:43 GMT, Hg  wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:52:27 -0700, joecassara wrote:   
   >   
   >> If anyone has photographs of computer retail setups from the 80s and   
   >> early 90s, I urge you to post them to the web somewhere.  It would be   
   >> particularly nice to see the old Sears setups and the showrooms of   
   >> stores local to your home town, for nostalgia.   
   >   
   >   
   >Guess those displays must have been a happier memory for people in the States,   
   >were you allowed to use the computers on display?   
   >   
   >Here in the UK a particular consumer electronics chain put a bunch of systems   
   >ready to use within easy access of people, and then the store assistants   
   >were told to go ballistic if anyone even touched the things.   
   >How sad is that?   
      
   I remember back then, anyone could touch it and even play with it a   
   bit.  Game carts were chained in to prevent theft but the main systems   
   were often not chained so if you had bulky coat you could probably   
   grab a free C64 back then.   
      
   The last time I saw any Commodore stuff at Sears, it was the newer   
   C64-C and a 1541-II drive missing the disk latch lever.   
      
   Stores still leave the PCs out on display today but they are often   
   password protected to prevent software tampering and the keyboard and   
   mouse were strapped down.  Laptops were also bolted in a security case   
   that allows only the keyboard to be touched.   
      
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