What is the Home Computer Hall of Fame? Its an archive. Its a virtual museum. Its a nostalgia trip. Its somewhere where people can look wistfully at a plastic box with less processing power than a TV remote and say things like I learned to program on one of those, they were brilliant. Basically, its somewhere where sad people like me can sit and remember the good old days of home computing. Take a look at a modern home computer. Most likely its a dull, beige box with multiple gigabytes of disc space, multiple megabytes of memory and more processing power than it knows what to do with. Now look back a few years. Hard drives were unheard of and floppy discs were rare, 128K of memory was huge. A modern home computer has over 200 times as much memory just looking after the graphics system as my first computer a Dragon 32 had main memory. By modern standards, these machines were primative, but there was something about them that made them far more enjoyable than the current selection or lack thereof. That something needs preserving and hopefully the HCHOF and other archives like it can help.

Website: http://www.gondolin.org.uk/hchof/machines/acornatom.html