Reservations can be made, modified and printed with just a few keystrokes. Since no campground management software was available when he bought the computer, wrote his own, complete with a graphical map showing the location of each campsite. Output is through a monochrome display, which is tiny compared to the modern TFT standing next to it, but was apparently much better than the monitor included with a typical DOS machine back in the day. To be exact, we’re looking at an Atari 1040STF, which runs on a 68000 CPU and has one full megabyte of RAM: in fact it was one of the first affordable machines with that much memory. In the video demonstrates the computer and its custom campground booking system to. (Video, embedded below.)Īlthough its case has yellowed a bit, the trusty old machine is still running 24/7 from April to October, as it has done every year since 1985.
That’s what we guess has been thinking for the past few decades, as he kept using his Atari ST to run a booking system for the family campground.
