The Beginning
Century 23 began in May of 1977, the brain child of Nick and Penny Reese. It was the first computer store in Nevada and one of the first in the world. Century 23 opened it's doors in August 1977 selling electronic parts and kit computers like Southwest Technical products and OSI. In the early days of computing you usually had to solder it together yourself as there were not very many preassembled units available. In 1978, we added Apple and have been with them ever since.
Century 23 moved in 1980 to it's first Meadows Lane location. We were there for six years at the height of the Apple II years. While there, Apple III arrived. Soon after Apple's first hard drive, the Profile, a 5 MB unit was added to the Apple II, Apple III configuration. Apple changed the world when it introduced the Lisa, the first graphical user interface (GUI) production computer. In 1984 Apple changed the world again with the introduction of the Macintosh computer.
In 1986, Century 23 began building it's own building just down the street on Meadows Lane, across from the Meadows Mall.