Editing Exidy Sorcerer (section)

=== Origins ===
[[Paul Terrell]] was operating RepCo in California, selling power supplies and test instruments to electronics manufacturers. A suggestion by Ed Roberts of MITS led Paul to start one of the first personal computer stores, the [[Byte Shop]], in 1975. By 1977, the first store at El Camino Real in Mountain View, had grown into a chain of 58 stores, which Terrell then sold to John Peers of [[Logical Machine Corporation]].<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine= Interface Age |date=1977 |volume=2 |page=26 |title= The Byte Shop organization has been purchased by John Peers of Logical Machine Corporation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtQSAQAAMAAJ}}</ref>

Prior to selling Byte Shop, Terrell had introduced an S-100 based kit called the Byt8, to be sold alongside the MITS Altair and other S-100 compatible systems. 

Terrell, always looking for new ventures, saw a gap in the market for a small business computer that was user-friendly, affordable, came fully equipped, and importantly without the need for any customer-assembly. At the time, the [[Commodore PET]] and Tandy [[TRS-80]] offered the out-of-the-box experience he considered essential, yet the TRS-80 required a costly computer monitor, and both machines had low-resolution graphics capabilities. The [[Apple II]] had superior graphics and color, but required some user assembly before being operational.

Looking for a suitable name, Terrell noted "Computers are like magic to people, so let's give them computer magic with the Sorcerer computer."