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Powell's in Portland temporarily had a separate Technical Annex, but it only lasted a short time (a year?) before being absorbed back into the main building.

• msie 11y ago
  Shame, I didn't know that it's now gone. I went there once and it was heaven! In Vancouver we had a shop devoted solely to computer books, it was called "Unihall". That's where I met my first O'Reilly book (X11 manual). It's now gone. There was another chain called "Half-Price Computer Books". It was awesome too. Also gone. :-( Also Duthies Technical too. And Siliconnections. Wow, we had a whole bunch of these in Vancouver...
• GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
  They apparently closed only last year, but I remember going there in the late 90s or so.
• tmaly 11y ago
  I was going to mention Powell's Technical books but I was last there in 2000. Its a shame it is not there anymore
• mindcrime 11y ago
  They still have a nice selection of technical books in the main store though. I'm here in Portland visiting now, and Powell's was pretty much my first stop. :-) They have a larger section of technical books than probably any other book store I've been in. And I'm talking just "computer stuff", that's not even counting the math/science stuff, electrical engineering / electronics, etc. If anyone is ever in Portland, you'll definitely want to make a trip to Powell's if you like (dead tree) books.