Kimberly Voll walks through the exhibit of decades-old computers and video game consoles, and pauses at a grey-and-black Texas Instruments TI-99/4A personal computer.
“This was my very first computer,” says Voll, an instructor at the Centre for Digital Media and co-curator of the exhibit. “We got one of these around 1979. My dad had one and I used to sit on his lap and play games.”
A modern projector casts, onto the wall, a colourful image of the game the computer is running: Parsec, a space shooter game. When the game ends — the player’s spaceship exploding into colourful pixels — the display returns to the menu. The first option is to replay Parsec. The second, to launch the computer programming language BASIC.
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