Computer Museum

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I recently visited a new computer museum here in Brantford owned by
a friend of mine, Syd Bolton. I took a picture of my very first computer the Atari 400 (right). The programs came on ROM cartridge or a cassette
tape. It took 5, and even as much as 20 minutes to load a program by cassette! The keys were touch sensitive, so you couldn't type very fast. At least there was no such thing as a virus back then. Here is the link to the Computer Museums website.
Be sure to view the Quicktime video near the bottom--It's worth the download =) http://www.pcmuseum.ca

I traded up to the Atari
800 which had real keys! Yoink! it also had two ROM cartridge slots and it was my first computer that I could buy a floppy disc drive for. The discs were 5 1/4 inch and held about 300kb of info. The programs loaded much faster and the floppy drive alone cost me $500. You can see the drive behind the Atari 800--It's that big chunky looking thing. I really enjoyed this computer. It was solid and reliable and the programs I enjoyed are still some of my favs. Empire of the Overmind (text adventure) Battles of Midway (text carrier-plane battles over Midway island), Miner 2049'r, Mule, Kennedy Approach just to name a few =)

I upgraded the 800 to the Atari ST,
which was the worlds first 16bit computer. The floppy disks were the very first 3.5inch drives I had used and my very first hard drive was a paltry 20 megs. The hard disc drive was the size of a large shoebox, and you had wait several seconds for it to spin up, before you could use it! I remember the price of that hard drive---$875 Gulp. I got this machine in 1985 and the hard drive around 1989 and I still have it today. It was the game "The Lost Adimiral" by QQP that got me hooked on PC's. My first PC was a 386 clone and the operating system was DOS, where you did everything by typing commands. C:\ tla.bat