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From: shankar@bedrock.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth)
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Subject: Re: B. Dalton
Keywords: Software stores
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Date: 12 Jun 89 18:32:44 GMT
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In article <1166@blackbird.afit.af.mil> fboudrea@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Fred P. Boudreaux) writes:
>I think I have supported B. Dalton all by myself.  Well...almost.  I have
>only seen one B. Dalton Software store.  When I was living in tampa florida.
>Since I am now back in the sticks(small town u.s.a.) can anyone tell me
>if B. Dalton now has more of these stores?  Talk about a good book selection.
>3/4 of the store was all computer related books.  It was like a dream I never
>thought would come true.  I loved it!

Here, in the Twin Cities, there are 5 B. Daltons that I know of (Rosedale,
Brookdale, across Ridgedale, Southdale, and City Center for you Minnesotans).

They used to be very good, and in some ways even better then the university
bookstores in certain subareas, but they have deteriorated dramatically
over the last few months, to the point where they now have only Lotus, MSDOS,
and other similar books essentially.  They seem to have gotten rid of all 
their technical books and a good chunk of their other computers books.

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Subash Shankar             Honeywell Systems & Research Center
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