User:Martin Burch

Hi, I'm Martin Burch, a 17 year old high school student living in New Mexico, USA. Along with my uncle, Mike Burch, I am one of the founding curators of the Highland Historic Computer Museum.

I visit the museum's physical location in Highland, Maryland biannually and can deliver historical computers donated in the southwest.

Museum-related interests and skills
Of course I have other interests and skills — like webpage and forum design, Volkswagon super beetles, horticulture, photography, science fiction, cats, reading and finishing my school assignments — but I still have time to be interested in old computers. How do I do it? Procrastination on my school assignments.

Galaxian by Atari
Galaxian, the evolution of space invaders and the predecessor to the better known Galaga as well as many other games, is my favorite eight-bit computer game. It's fun to play and makes a great demo. Auctually, Galaxian was created by Namco for arcade machines, but a port to the Atari 2600 home game console led to a flurry of Atari written ports.

Currently, the museum has Galaxian ports for:
 * Atari 2600 (cartridge)
 * Atari eight-bit computers (cartridge)
 * IBM PC models (5¼" floppy)
 * Coleco Adam (high speed cassette)
 * Apple II models (5¼" floppy)

I'm always on the lookout for more Galaxian-related stuff!