https://blog.archive.org/2024/08/19/archiving-the-famous-computer-cafe/
"A previously lost cache of celebrity and historical interviews from a
long-dormant radio show have been discovered, digitized, and made available for
all.
The Internet Archive is now home to 53 episodes of
The Famous Computer Cafe,
a 1980s radio show about the new world of home computers. The program included
computer industry news, product reviews, and interviews, and aired from 1983
through 1986 on radio stations in southern and central California.
The creators of
The Famous Computer Cafe saved every episode on reel-to-reel
tapes, but over the years the tapes were forgotten, and, ultimately, lost.
Earlier this year archivist Kay Savetz recovered several of the tapes in a
property sale, and recognizing their value and worthiness of professional
transfer, launched a GoFundMe to have them digitized, and made them available
at Internet Archive with the permission of the show’s creators.
While full of time-capsule descriptions of 1980s technology news, the most
exciting aspect of the show has been the variety and uniqueness of the
interviews. The list of people that the show interviewed is a who’s-who of tech
luminaries of the 1980s: computer people, musicians, publishers, philosophers,
journalists. Interviews in the recovered recordings include Timothy Leary,
Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Atari’s Jack Tramiel, Apple’s Bill Atkinson, and
dozens of others. The recovered shows span November 17 1984 through July 12,
1985.
Many more of the original reel-to-reel tapes — including shows with interviews
with Ray Bradbury, Robert Moog, Donny Osmond, and Gene Roddenberry — are still
lost, and perhaps are still waiting to be found in the Los Angeles area."
Via Esther Schindler.
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