It was really the first discount software store. It was over at Marsh Lane and Belt Line Road.
It was a small room with bookcases all around the room. They were filled with empty software boxes. You could look through them or lists of titles. Then wait in line up to a window where you told someone what you wanted. Then you would wait for them to go get it and then on to the cashier. It was a novel concept and was the place to go for software,
Later they expanded into a superstore. Here is a video from them back then. Eventually they became CompUSA.
I bought my first 20mb hard drive from them. Yep. 20 megabytes. The quote from me at the time was “How will I ever fill that up, 20mb?” LOL. LOL. LOL.
At one point they were pretty cool.
Later they became pretty difficult to work with.
Computer software and hardware profit margin is so skinny that retail store fronts are tough to keep open.
Ah! The good old days! (Not really) my first pc had a whopping 640k hard drive. And a puny amount of memory. I remember working on a flow chart for an administrator at my office and having to wait thirty minutes between any keystroke for the change to process. Those days a mere 10mb drive seemed like heaven to me.
But… in the early days, Soft Warehouse was a regular destination of mine to drool over new typestyle packages, mousepads, graphics software…
Remember when a 1 gig thumb drive seemed mind-bogglingly huge and had a price tag to match?
I agree with you. I used to go to SW almost on a weekly basis to scope out the latest computer stuff. It was fun and really interesting for a while, then the place changed. It became more of a pain to trade their.
I too bought some interesting computer stuff from them such as the huge 20MB drive at the time.
