Yesterday after shopping with my mother and sister at The Container Store, I wandered into Tekserve, a Mac speciality store on 23rd St., looking ofr The Print Shop for Mac, but found much, much more. I had known about Tekserve for a while, but had never gone to the actual store myself. The place is incredible. When you first walk through teh door, you can see a line of Mac SEs and Mac Classics (the first macintosh computers, though not the first Apple computers, just google “Apple I,” “apple II,” “Apple III,” and “Lisa.) stacked on top of each other, showing the deep Apple roots of the sore and immediatly increasing the geek appeal. The store itself has the look and appeal of an old general store, with with wooden signs hanging from the ceiling marking the different areas of the store and tickets for speaking to someone at the counter (just like B&H Photo at 34th St.), yet also has the geeky mac appeal of the Apple Store. After talking briefly to someone at the support counter there (almost like an old-fasioned, less-crowded version of the Genius bar at Apple Stores), I learned that Tekserve had been open since the very beginning of Apple products. Wow! That’s since the 80s! Also, my dad told me that he bought a non-mac computer there in 1987, before it was a mac specialty store. Now that’s cool. You can see some pics of Tekserve that I took with my mom’s cameraphone (note to slef, take RAZR EVERYWHERE) below.
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Aaron Freedman is a 16 year old who's very passionate and knowledgeable about technology and journalism. He enjoys working on his two main projects, 
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