The Beginning
"A computer store! What in the world is that?"
-Valley Bank of Nevada, branch manager, May 1977
4566 Spring Mountain Road
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 Computers. 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 the ready-to-go Apple II's and have been with Apple ever since. Of course, in 1978, you may have had to wait 10 to 15 minutes for a program to load into your Apple II from cassette tape.
4530 Meadows Lane
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 IIe, 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.
4101 Meadows Lane
In 1986, Century 23 began building it's own building just down the street on Meadows Lane, across from the Meadows Mall. Century 23 remained at this location for well over twenty years. During those years, we saw the little Macintosh Plus grow into the Macintosh II and beyond. Mac lines were to come and go like the Performa. The iMac arrived in 1998 and changed everything again. Color! The Bondi Blue color of the first iMac was so compelling, that soon small appliances and many other products were being produced in the same Bondi Blue color. Apple followed by introducing a literal rainbow of iMac colors. OS X replaced OS 9 with a powerful Unix based operating system. Gray PowerBooks became black 15" beauties and eventually all metal cased Titanium models. Apple introduce the iPod and changed the way we listen to music. The 15" flat panel iMac G4 with it's clever screen on a flexible arm assembly debuted and computers changed again. The screen sizes increased to 20" and eventually the arm disappeared to be replaced by the computer-inside-the-screen iMac. PowerPC chips were replaced by Intel processors, the operating system advanced from OS X 10.0 to 10.6. White plastic iMac's followed the PowerBook's journey to Aluminum cases. PowerMac tower's with dual processors became MacPro's with dual quad core (8) processors models and are more powerful than the million dollar super computers of just a few years ago.
5000 W. Oakey Blvd.
In 2008 Century 23 moved to the present location at 5000 W. Oakey Blvd. #B5
The locations have changed, some of the people have changed and computers have certainly changed, but Century 23 remains... committed to provide their customers with state-of-the-art service, support and consulting.
