Computers

I'm not talkin' Oregon freakin' Trail here! While that is a fine game, it gets all too much attention! Specifically, I'd like to talk about other lesser-spoken-of PC games from the late 80's to mid 90's. The games that drove some of my enthusiasm for computers early on. Games that made you use your

1999 to 2009 was 'my' decade of service in the retail computer trade. Geographically, I was in the National-Capital Ottawa area. Silicon Valley North as it was also known. Still producing in recent years up to 2020, tech professionals at a higher growth rate than Silicon Valley itself. Ottawa has a

I was thinking, these days- sometimes using a computer is rather boring, or unexciting. Doing things on a computer that were once amazing or unimaginable, are now unremarkable and pedestrian. I'd argue that the days of interacting with the computer mainly by keyboard was somehow better. I think it

Do young people of today know of ATI when they see a AMD Radeon video card? And do people in general know that ATI was a Canadian based company? The last standing competitor to Nvidia graphics; ATI or, as known now- AMD Radeon. In my time, buying ATI was seen as supporting a Canadian company VS the

Initially, in Kindergarten we didn't have any computers at all. There might have been an odd occasion where we could go to another classroom to use a computer - but mostly they kept the K grade kids off of those expensive machines. For grade 1 and beyond, we started to have a single Apple II

A lifelong preoccupation with computers probably began with the ASMR hum of IBM Selectric electronic typewriters in my grandfathers downtown Ottawa law office. That audible hum of electronics running - waiting to take action at the beck and call of your key press. There was something exciting about