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Erol's refers to two companies, both founded by Erol Onaran, a Turkish immigrant to Virginia.
Erol's Video was a video rental company founded in the early 1980s. It was sold to Blockbuster Video for roughly $30 million. Its success was wide-spread enough to spawn imitations. In La Paz, Bolivia, there are several video rental stores called Erol's using the same font and red text on a yellow background for their logo.
Using the money from the sale of the video company, Erol would then expandand his TV repair company and began selling and repairing computers. Soon afterwards, he created an ISP bearing his name in the mid 1990s.
The company, now called Erol's Internet, was eventually sold to RCN. It remains a brand of RCN, although most business is conducted under the name RCN or Starpower (a joint venture of RCN and Virginia Power).
The Onaran family retains a small store in a strip-mall under the name Erol's Computer which sells computer parts and repairs computers and video equipment.
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