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A-Copy America was a company in the Boston/Cambridge area that sold and serviced photo copy machines. One of my college buddies began working for them after we graduated in 1982. Chambers began working as a copy machine repairman in Cambridge, Massachusetts for $75 a week, plus commission on any service contracts he could sell. By the time he was 22, he had started his own copier distribution company called A-Copy America, with money borrowed from his parents, in Hartford, Connecticut. The copier business was changing from a leasing model to a sales model due to the new low-cost copier models from companies like Minolta, Canon, and Sharp and Chambers started selling copiers along with copy supplies. His business soon became the world’s largest Minolta and Canon dealers with 1,400. employees in 36 offices. Today, Chambers is 74 and owns 60 Automotive Car Dealers and is considered one of the richest people in the USA worth a couple billion dollars. And he started out using Datsuns!!!!! Clearly a ver
