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EGM Live* – Podcast

I was lucky and very honored to be called in for a podcast interview at EGM. If you are interested give it a listen. It’s the 2/26/2007

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Atari 800 in store demo

When I was in high school the Atari 800 had just come out. Back then this demo was the most inspiring thing ever! I would look at this demo and think computers were going to change the world. How I could imagine all that from this demo is hard to fathom I guess but I

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Computer Geek circa 1984

Dorm Room Panorama from 1984
What a geek!

random stuff to notice:

  • Awesome 1mhz 64k computers with 160k 5.25 inch floppy drives
  • Evans & Sutherland calendar
  • “Creative Computing” and “Compute” magazines
  • 45s
  • D&D figures
  • Awesome 9inch color monitor, um I mean TV tuned to channel 3
  • Hayes 1200baud modem (or was it 300?)
  • Dot matrix printer with fan fold

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