XT Clone with a bus board?

From: Jim Kearney <jim_at_jkearney.com>
Date: Sun Dec 1 09:51:00 2002

>From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
> Actually, I still see some Computerlands out here (there's one in
Redlands),
> but I don't know if it's the "real" Computerland, or just a company that
> bought the trademark. It *is* the right logo.

Seeing as how you're in San Diego, I think they had a store in Mira Mesa
near University Town Center.

Apparently Computerland was a franchise, so some of them may well still be
operating with the same name and logo after the franchiser collapsed. I
found this interesting nugget from Forbes:

"Bill Millard, chief executive of IMSAI and later of ComputerLand,
understood that new rules of management would be needed for a new industry.
He foresaw that Imsai, one of the first companies to build low-cost
microcomputers, would be a new kind of company - one where nobody was
inhibited by rank, where emotion counted for as much as intellect, and where
employees would give the fabled 110% because they wanted to, not because
they were whipped into a frenzy by superiors.

Unfortunately, what came to pass was the opposite. Millard was a
near-fanatical devotee of Werner Erhard's est (Erhard Seminar Training),
frequently called a cult of postmodern psychology. With its unrelenting
emphasis on self-actualization, est - and therefore Imsai - was a case study
in how to take good ideas and make them hell to live with. Imsai ended up as
a company in which employees worked extremely long hours but were afraid to
speak up, the slightest infraction was met by harsh discipline, and top
executives lived and acted like royalty while the grunts received crumbs.
Inequities were so vast that the books were repeatedly cooked to conceal
them.

Imsai, which built decent computers, went down in flames because no
company - whatever its success - could overcome such an idiosyncratic
management style. The expirations of Imsai and later ComputerLand were so
complex and explosive that Millard remained tangled in litigation for years.
"
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