When I first encountered Computer Shopper sometime in the late 80's, Stan Veit, original editor of Computer Shopper, had retired but was writing a column on his experiences in the early PC industry. He owned one of the earliest computer stores in New York and interacted with a number of the early entrepreneurs.

Those columns are neatly collected in a book:

https://archive.org/details/stan-veits-history-of-the-person...