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Podcast #342 – The Famous Computer Cafe

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We travel back to the 1980s, when the show, The Famous Computer Cafe, initially launched over the radio in southern California. With a focus on home computers, computer news, and more, the program had a fascinating roster of guests, including Timothy Leary, Donny Osmond, Bill Gates, and so many others. Although it was assumed that all the recordings of the show were lost; recently 53 episodes were found and digitized. Computer historian and archivist Kay Savetz spearheaded this project and joins us on Radio Survivor, alongside one of the creators and hosts of The Famous Computer Cafe, Ellen Fields.

Show Notes:
  • Listen to The Famous Computer Cafe on Archive.org
  • The Famous Computer Cafe ads and ephemera on Archive.org
  • Interviews with The Famous Computer Cafe founders on ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit Podcast
  • Digitizing “The Famous Computer Cafe” Radio Show (GoFundMe)
  • The PBS television show The Computer Chronicles (Wikipedia)
  • Episode of “The Famous Computer Cafe” that mentions computer ads (at about the 4 minute mark) in New York taxi cabs
  • Timothy Leary episode of “The Famous Computer Cafe”
  • COMDEX was a computer trade show in Las Vegas from 1979 to 2003 (Wikipedia)
  • “Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History” (Radio Survivor #135)
  • The Famous Computer Cafe collection at Stanford University Libraries
    • Show Credits:
    • This episode was produced by Jennifer Waits
    • Hosted by Jennifer Waits and Eric Klein
    • Edited by Eric Klein

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