Babbage’s was a software retailer that operated storefronts in closed-air shopping malls. It opened its first store in NorthPark Center in Dallas on Memorial Day, May 30, 1983. By mid 1994, it operated 320 stores in 40 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada, but by 1996, it fell on hard times. Barnes & Noble chairman Leonard Riggio bought the company November 27, 1996.

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.










