ComputerLand NYC Franchise Agreement
notes: label: Description
content: This loose-leaf binder contains a copy of the franchise agreement between ComputerLand Corp. of California and Facks Computer, Inc. of New York dated January 1980. The binder also contains a manilla folder with newspaper clippings and legal documents concerning a legal dispute over the ownership of the franchise.
label: Description
content: James Egan, Joseph Alfieri, Robert Kurland, and Thomas Vandermeulen of Facks Computer, Inc. were the owners of the first ComputerLand store in Manhattan.
label: Description
content: ComputerLand was a nationwide chain of retail computer stores. They opened their first store in 1976 in Hayward, California. By 1990 most stores had closed and in early 1999 the company officially disbanded.
label: Description
content: The objects in accession 2017.0321 and non-accession 2017.3153 are related.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: In memory of James S. Egan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3153.09
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3153
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3153.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: document binder
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content: binder, three-ring
label: Object Name
content: binder, loose-leaf
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.5 cm x 24.5 cm x 2.7 cm; 11 5/8 in x 9 21/32 in x 1 1/16 in