[Welcome and first thoughts...]

Indeed it is cool to meet a fellow Kansas City Atari Enthusiast!  I imagine there are some more on here who just haven't found this thread and were part of the scene back then and knew all about the Computer Room.   If I recall, (and I was just a kid so who knows if this is right) it was the only real Atari place.  You could, of course, go to the big box stores and get the equipment -- but if you wanted to talk to someone who knew it you had to go there in KC (again maybe there were other places too -- but that's where we always went).   

 

Getting back into this stuff brings back such nostalgia.   I've had a ton of fun over the last several days just typing in program listings from old copies of books and learning (and in some cases re-learning) stuff that I forgot from back then.   

 

In any case great to make contact!

 

Edit:  almost forgot to answer your question.  I'm still here in KC -- been in Raymore (near Belton) for the last 20 years or so.

[Welcome and first thoughts...]

I realize this post is almost a year old now but your post brought back a ton of memories.   I remember going into the Computer Room and looking at all the Atari stuff as a kid.  In fact -- my father and I went there (I think it was an evening after the store closed) and Larry did a workshop with us and several other people to install a 256KB upgrades into our Atari 800XLs.   I was pretty young maybe 10 - 12 at the time -- but I think that was the first time I was introduced to the concept of a Ramdisk.   I definitely remember this store and the proprietor (though I had forgotten both the store name and his until I found your post!).   

 

I remember going to several Atari user group meetings as a kid too -- but I want to say it was maybe a different group.  We lived north of the river (by Worlds of Fun) and I think there was a North Kansas City group.   I wasn't super involved -- and most of the members were adults so I don't think I went to many of these (my parents weren't into the computer at all -- it was just me).   

 

I'm just now getting back into the Atari (I bought one about a year or so ago -- sadly my machine from back then is no where to be found) but hadn't had much time to dig into it.  I'm starting to teach myself 8 bit programming (I'm decent enough with modern languages and platforms -- but it's a lot of fun digging into the machine that started it all for me).

 

In any case thanks for your post coming up on search when I was trying to remember this place.  Did you end up getting a KC-ACE going (I expect this was a tough year to get anything like that moving though).