Paul Terrell started his Byte Shop--one of the first, if not the first, personal computer retailers--in December 1975 in Mountain View, California. By January 1976 he was being approached by people who wanted to open their own stores. He signed dealership agreements with them, whereby he would take a percentage of their profits, and soon there were Byte Shops in Santa Clara, San Jose, Palo Alto, and Portland, Oregon. In March 1976, Terrell incorporated as Byte, Inc. Wikipedia
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