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Kay Savetz@savetz.bsky.social |
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Atari 8-bit historian, Internet Archive ham radio archivist, interactive fiction podcaster
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Kay Savetz
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Newly added interviews with John Shirley, president of Microsoft; John Reese, Tronix and Monogram; Sid Meier; Steven Levy; Jim Zuber of Blue Chip Software; and many more. The whole list is at docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Kay Savetz
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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.
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Kay Savetz
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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 archive.org/details/famo...
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Ernie Smith
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The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive’s existence is getting threatened because it loans books like a library, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
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Kay Savetz
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19 new old episodes of Famous Computer Cafe digitized this week, including interviews with Bill Gates, Kazuhiko Nishi, Timothy Leary, Joel Berez, Bart Rhoades, and many more. Plus a transcript of their interview with Gene Roddenberry.
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Kay Savetz
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I posted an update on Digitizing "The Famous Computer Cafe" radio show — uploaded 10 episodes this week! www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing...
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Kay Savetz
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Here's a just-recovered 1985 interview with Apple Computer's Bill Atkinson, talking about the new Macintosh. "When I came to Apple, there were 30 people there." He programmed Apple II, designed software for Lisa, and programmed MacPaint. archive.org/details/the-...
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Kay Savetz
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Just digitized: Famous Computer Cafe episode from Feb 1985, with a long interview with James Copland, vice president and director of marketing at Atari. "If the company had not been purchased by Jack Tramiel in July... it would not be around today." archive.org/details/the-...
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Kay Savetz
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Be among the first to hear this lost 1984 interview with Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky talking about the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game! archive.org/details/the-...
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Kay Savetz
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On June 17 I plan to drive the remainder of the reels to the digitizing lab, so we should have more shows by the middle to end of the month.
You can always see the newest additions to the Famous Computer Cafe collection at:
archive.org/details/famo...
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Kay Savetz
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Mike Carbonne of Simonton Industries (ergonomic computer furniture); Terry Thormodesgaard and Jim St. Omer Roy of Thor Agency; Hershel Toomim, biofeedback pioneer (Dr. Toomim died in 2011) — and the announcement of The WELL in that episode. ...
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Kay Savetz
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Bill Atkinson of Apple Computer, Jackie Massing of Silicon Valley Computer Camp; Doug Heineman of Xerox; David Jonson "Dr. Disk" answers listener questions; Steve Laff, of Friendly Computers, a computer store; Fred Gladney of C.W. Gladney and Associates, a computer consultancy ...
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Kay Savetz
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I haven't listened to every minute of every show yet, so I'm excited to find out what gems you discover. If you have an Internet Archive account, you can leave comments as "reviews" in the Internet Archive items, or discuss what you hear on your favorite social media. Interviews include: ...
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Kay Savetz
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It's thrilling to hear these episodes, which are 39 and 40 years old, and literally haven't been heard since they originally aired. These episodes are available for everyone in the world to enjoy immediately. The GoFundMe is still accepting contributions. (www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing...)
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Kay Savetz
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Great news — the next EIGHT episodes of Famous Computer Cafe have been digitized and uploaded to Internet Archive! You can listen now. They sound GREAT! It's amazing that these tapes are in such great condition after so many years (so far, at least, fingers crossed.) archive.org/details/famo...
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Kay Savetz
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I uploaded to @archive.org an educational computer game dev company document I've waited for for years: SUPERBOOTS Business Plan (1984) archive.org/details/supe...
Superboots lab was at the Capital Children's Museum in D.C., sponsored by Atari. Its 1st (only?) program was PAINT! for Atari 8-bits.
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Kay Savetz
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For me, as a kid, these covers were a master class in making books seem boring
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Kay Savetz
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Uploaded to Internet Archive: 7 just-digitized talks from Xerox PARC including Document Management and the Net (order a pizza online!) from 1995 and “You are HERE - Why you will use GPS Every Day Eveywhere” from 1998. archive.org/details/xero...
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Kay Savetz
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@paulrickards.bsky.social Caroline seems to appreciate your plotter art
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Kay Savetz
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The Famous Computer Cafe digitization project was fully funded after less than 24 hours. Wow, thank you! We've started digitizing! You can still throw a couple of dollars (or more 🙃 ) at the gofundme to get updates as the work progresses and links to the shows as they're posted. gofund.me/87eb1a5b
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Kay Savetz
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Only one way to find out :)
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Kay Savetz
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Help me digitize 54 episodes of The Famous Computer Cafe, a 1980s radio show about computers that featured notable interviews, including Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, Douglas Adams, Bill Atkinson (creator of MacPaint), Jack Tramiel (Atari), Joel Berez (Infocom), and many more gofund.me/87eb1a5b
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Did you hear the story about how $400k worth of Playdates were misdelivered by FedEx to a construction site near our warehouse? And then someone just… stole them? Seriously. Well, guess what got hastily dumped at a random restaurant this morning? Welcome back stolen Playdates!
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Kay Savetz
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Hey #Atari programmers! I recovered Sunday Driver, an unfinished and unpublished game for #Atari 8-bit computers. I haven't been able to make it run, but it does seem to include 6502 assembly source code. Who will be the hero who makes it run? forums.atariage.com/topic/234684...
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Kay Savetz
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"Titan" is an unfinished and unpublished game for #Atari 8-bit computers by Tom Hudson and Lee Pappas, which was planned to be published by A.N.A.L.O.G. software. This morning I recovered the only known copies of the disk.
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Kay Savetz
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They should go full circle and name the combined company M-Network
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Kay Savetz
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Atari in today’s NYT crossword puzzle
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Kay Savetz
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Quinn’s blog post describing this project is amazing and a fun read blondihacks.com/reversing-ch...
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Kay Savetz
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Stop sexting me. (Or, don’t)
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Kay Savetz
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Flew to Rochester from Oregon to see the eclipse, and … feel your pain.
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Kay Savetz
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Nice
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Kay Savetz
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I think my eclipse glasses have expired
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Kay Savetz
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I am positive there are many amazing, unknown facts about the company's history in these pages — now, let's find them.
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Kay Savetz
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Here's the #Atari Corporation Prospectus and Form S-1 from when Jack Tramiel took the company public in 1986. 400+ pages of interesting material. It took me three years (almost to the day) to get these documents from the SEC. I just received them today.
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Kay Savetz
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Google Gemini: how it’s going
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Kay Savetz
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11. It’s not even funny
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Kay Savetz
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@hoppingfun.bsky.social hi! our 2015 microzine interview is available online as of a few days ago. archive.org/details/save...
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Kay Savetz
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Avoided the Y2K bug for the 25th year in a row! (A new record for me!)
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Kay Savetz
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At the end of every year I write a letter summarizing my computer history archiving efforts that year. Here's Kay’s 2023 Wrapped: www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2...
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Kay Savetz
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www.computerworld.com/article/3711...
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Kay Savetz
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The asswhole lesson
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Kay Savetz
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Ever hear of the Compucorp computer company? Me neither — until I scanned a bunch of their pamphlets and manuals. Word processing! Accounting! Payroll! Compucorp does it all. The computer itself is on its way to Vintage Computer Federation. Until then, enjoy the scans archive.org/search?query...
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Kay Savetz
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I write for Juiced.GS magazine, which focuses on the Apple II. I uploaded all of the articles I've written for it to Internet Archive, spanning 2015-2022. There are interviews, product reviews, and some nice little reminisces about the old days of microcomputers. Enjoy. archive.org/search?query...
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Kay Savetz
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There were no clunkers. Here We Are is probably my favorite. I’m still thinking about it. … Harmony was challenging because of the subject matter, but I’m still glad I saw it.
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Kay Savetz
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It was a busy five days in NYC.
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ANTIC Interview 436 - Rodrigo Castro, Atari in Chile
Rodrigo Castro was one of the organizers of an Atari Expo that took place July 22, 2023 in Santiago, Chile. In this interview, Rod and I talked about that event, as well as Atari's popularity in Chile. ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interv...
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Kay Savetz
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Today I wrote an article about a Universal Life Church mail-order reverend who married people using an Apple II using a BASIC program called Reverend Apple. It’ll be in the next issue of Juiced.GS magazine.
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Kay Savetz
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I stopped posting to Twitter and deleted the app from my phone one year ago today. I deeply miss the community that I’d developed there over 15 years.
I put an archive of my tweets up at savetz.com/twitterarchive
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Kay Savetz
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Today I released and GPLed a tool that my company created and uses daily: TasksMe
It emails your team asking "What did you do today?" They reply via email. Tasks Me sends a summary of what everyone did. It can also remind you what happened a week, 3 months, or a year ago
github.com/savetz/TasksMe
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