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Del's Atari in the USA 2003

Atari USA Meets Atari Netherlands

 

This week I had an opportunity to meet Mr Atari (Sijmen Schouten) in person, due to a business trip to the Netherlands. We have corresponded via e-mails and chat rooms for two years, but now came the chance for a face-to-face meeting.

Sijmen and Sandra picked me up at my hotel in Arnhem and after a short dinner stop we headed to their place.

Most of you have heard of Sijmen by now due to his My-IDE hard drive interface for the 8-bit Atari home computers. As I have said before, this is a must-have item if you own an 8-bit Atari computer.

[Photo: Sandra and Sijmen playing Asteroids]

After a quick photo Sijmen began his tour of the Atari haven that he and his wife have put together.

[Photo: Sijmen and Del]

After a few minutes I was doing something I hadn't done in 20 years: playing Atari Superman pinball and having fun.

[Photo: Del the pinball wizard!]

Upstairs I viewed row after row and shelf after shelf of Atari history. Looking at his collection makes my ten Ataris seem like nothing.

[Photo: Atari collection]

[Photo: Sijmen and his collection]

After long discussions about the world of Atari past, present and future, we called it a night around midnight.

I may never get the chance again to visit Mr Atari and Jar Jar in person, but I had a great time and the Atari world is a better place having dedicated people like this in support of it.

Happy holiday...

del@myatari.net

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MyAtari magazine - Feature #5, December 2003

 
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