{"id":3461,"date":"2011-05-25T23:45:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2011-05-25T23:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T03:55:39","slug":"historic-case-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/25\/historic-case-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Case Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/IMG_6110.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/97247-2\/IMG_6110.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Data Premium and Pack In Tell computer case badges from when I worked at Computer Warehouse.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This evening while cleaning out an old tool bag I found these two old computer case badges for Data Premium and Pack In Tell brand computers. These were two house brands from Computer Warehouse, a retail computer outlet in Troy and Madison Heights where I worked from late 1996 until early 1999. These shops were later known as Thomas Computer Warehouse and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pr.com\/company-profile\/overview\/2192\">Computer Builders Warehouse<\/a>. During this time the Computer Warehouse stores worked closely with Inca Computer Company; so much so that I essentially transfered from CW to Inca to work in their R&#038;D department. Once Inca closed up shop (it was basically a brick and mortar chain with grandiose plans opening right in the middle of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dot-com_bubble\">dot-com bubble<\/a>) under I returned to Computer Warehouse for a few months before moving on to the world of corporate IT.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve got an Inca badge or two around here somewhere as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening while cleaning out an old tool bag I found these two old computer case badges for Data Premium and Pack In Tell brand&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/25\/historic-case-badges\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Historic Case Badges<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-found-things","category-work","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}