Kay Savetz on Nostr: We’ve finished digitizing all of the The Famous Computer Cafe tapes. In the end, we ...
We’ve finished digitizing all of the The Famous Computer Cafe tapes. In the end, we recovered 52 1/2 episodes, a perfect time capsule of the world of microcomputing spanning November 17 1984 through July 12, 1985. They’re at http://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe
Hundreds more episodes are still lost, so keep an eye out in the world for more Famous Computer Cafe tapes: they’re on 10.5” NAB reel-to-reel tapes, and may still be in or around the Los Angeles area.
Newly added episodes:
John Shirley, who was president of Microsoft. He died in 2013.
John Reese, head of Tronix and Monogram Software, talking about home banking and “Dollars and Sense” software.
A banger of an episode with journalist Steven Levy (author of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution); Sid Meier of Microprose, talking about F-15 Strike Eagle); and Dave Johnson of IBM, discussing voice response systems.
Christopher Miles of Crystal Network, which was some sort of online service that I couldn’t get my head around.
Hundreds more episodes are still lost, so keep an eye out in the world for more Famous Computer Cafe tapes: they’re on 10.5” NAB reel-to-reel tapes, and may still be in or around the Los Angeles area.
Newly added episodes:
John Shirley, who was president of Microsoft. He died in 2013.
John Reese, head of Tronix and Monogram Software, talking about home banking and “Dollars and Sense” software.
A banger of an episode with journalist Steven Levy (author of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution); Sid Meier of Microprose, talking about F-15 Strike Eagle); and Dave Johnson of IBM, discussing voice response systems.
Christopher Miles of Crystal Network, which was some sort of online service that I couldn’t get my head around.