Computer Fest

The furniture had arrived from the UK at the end of January, along with my boxes of floppy disks, a few thousand C64 programs calling to me from inside their cardboard tombs and a convenient spare room in the apartment to set something up.

In the (almost) spring of 1988 the average price for an entry level computer with VGA was around $2500 (for a 286) and the 386 was just being introduced at prices hovering around $6500+ Canadian. The price was so restrictive that, even in the workplace, personal computers were only for the elite.

There was a free monthly magazine, called Toronto Computes, which I would slobber over endlessly, and advertised was a weekend event, Computer Fest, approaching at the start of March.