I stumbled across these photos while cleaning out some of the junk that was piling up in our cellar. They were glued (cringe) to a piece of red laser perforated paper. The last photo was particularly poor and showed only part of my first PC clone, a metal-cased Kaypro beast. I had traded in my Atari ST when I transferred to Plymouth State College (now University) after my freshman year. Compared to the 386’s we had in the computer lab it was a slouch and I eventually returned to the Atari ST. Before abandoning the Atari I had a PC extension (it was an actual 8086 chip housed on its own little motherboard and connected via the DMA port) and the Mac emulator. As you can see from these photos I was in the Atari camp in the 8-bit days as well.
My original Atari 800XL. To the right of the computer and TV from the top downward are a cassette drive, a 5 1/4″ disk drive (upgraded to be double sided), and a 300 baud modem that connected via the joystick port.
My original Atari 800XL. Note the printout on the wall. I believe that is Mt. Fuji printed from an Atari 520ST that I had access to at Hands On Computers, the store I worked at during high school.
An Atari 1040ST with both the hi-res monochrome monitor and the low/medium-res color monitor for games and graphics. I don’t see the MegaFile 30 hard drive that I eventually had so this must have been before that was available.
Update: I don’t have a photo of it but my very first computer was a TI 99/4A.
