Cooper Systems Inc

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The roots of the company go back to 1932 when Harry S. Cooper started the former Cooper typewriter Company, selling new and used typewriters. This was located on Second Street across from the Peabody Hotel. Today as it was in the 30's, customer service is the corner stone of the business. As technology progressed, electric typewriters were introduced, and after WWII, his son Melvin B. Cooper entered the business and expanded the product lines adding metal furniture and calculating machines and the Cooper Typewriter Company became Cooper Office Equipment. Again, technology pushes the business ahead; Melvin imported the first electronic calculators into the Memphis area, electric typewriters became electronic and calculators became programmable. After working many summers a third generation, Lee D. Cooper, joined the company permanently in 1974. In the late 70's Lee brought the company into the computer age and started selling Apple computers, and shortly after IBM PC compatible computers, and it became Cooper Systems Inc. Realizing the design of most computers required the owner to have to purchase a new computer every few years, Lee Cooper designed a line of IBM clones that could be expanded and upgraded without having to start over with a new machine. He named this brand of computers Phoenix after the mythical Phoenix bird, that burned itself up every 500 to 1600 years and "reinvented itself"...

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