About Us
U.S. Computer Corporation grew from a company whose original operations were begun in 1960 as a privately owned communications and electronics company representing industry leaders such as Hallicrafters, Hammarlund, and General Electric. In 1968 we entered the digital computer field as Information Associates and by 1972 delivered our first mini computer as Northwest Computer Group. In 1975 Northwest Computer Group established a partnership offering customized mini computers, software, and time share services to the business, government, and educational communities. We wrote and developed customizable software and integrated the software into mini computers to support those customers We connected computers between cities and companies long before it become a common practice and decades before there were graphical web browsers. By 1976 our customers could and were dialing into our time sharing services from terminals in remote cities. Our first 'online' customers included a nationwide insurance underwriter, a nationwide industrial contractor, and a public housing authority. In 1977 our founders began preparation for a shift from the mini computer to what would eventually become the micro computer and the present personal computer market. Under the trade name New Age Electronics founded in 1978 we became one of America's largest and most successful Commodore Amiga dealers. Small personal computers were here and we shared the excitement, enthusiasm and joy of personal computing. In 1986 we incorporated under our present corporate structure as U.S. Computer Corporation. The same year we diversified into the IBM PC personal and business markets shipping our first 6 IBM compatible machines to a state education agency in the northeast. By 1987 home and business customers could dial in to our co owned operations and BBS and download files and obtain support and other information online. Not for the hundreds of dollars a month it had cost our customers just 11 years earlier, but for free. Shortly thereafter our owners officially registered a U.S. copyright on our first accounting package for an IBM PC and our focus became the rapidly expanding market for PC's in business, education, government and the home. By the mid 1990's we went on the web as uscomputer.net and later as myprogramstore.com. In about 2004 MyBargainStore was born. In 2006 we updated MyBargainStore to include Amazon best deals as well as other online vendors & stores.