Computer Gallery Information

Computer Gallery was founded in 1988 on Milwaukee's east side, within a few blocks of the University of Wisconsin. Not only was there no nearby source for PC's at the time, there were no stores in the Milwaukee area concentrating on building PC's and selling them direct. Sometime in 1993, Computer Gallery moved to a larger store a few miles to the north. And in 2000, we moved to an even larger store on Estabrook park (complete with at least one fat beaver). We like storefronts over offices or warehouse space. They have an open and inviting nature. When we first opened our doors back in '88, there were no computer superstores. Northgate dominated (if you could call it that) in mail-order PC's. Dell hadn't renamed his company to Dell yet. 20-MB hard drives were big and 40-MB hard drives were enormous. A PC's RAM was comprised of individual chips that were inserted, one by one, into sockets on motherboards (you miss one leg and probably nothing worked). MS-DOS was the dominant OS, Windows hadn't even been conceived of, and there was no Linux or FreeBSD (although there were other Unix alternatives from Mark Williams and others).