Would love to attend a Vintage Computing Festival. Alas, there's no masking requirement even in the middle of COVID surges. The community is talking a big talk about being inclusive, but it's really not. Yes, you can run events with mandatory masking, like XOXOFest did last month. #retrocomputing
When Don Joyce of Negativland died, Internet Archive took materials to house for years. The tapes are now out to get archival quality captures, and archivist Taylor posted a cut tape from Escape From Noise, "Gun and the Bible", being digitized. You can see the cuts! youtu.be/xML3I0j2nQM?...
YouTube video by Taylor Jessen
275 issues of MicroTimes Magazine ("California’s Computer Magazine”) are now available at Internet Archive, with the blessing of the publisher. The magazines can be read online or downloaded, and are full text searchable. archive.org/details/micr...
I heard you might want to hear some ComputerLand radio commercials from the late 1980s archive.org/details/Comp...
Ten ComputerLand radio commercials that aired from 1985-1989. Some were local spots for ComputerLand of San Bernardino; others appear to be national spots.The...
Ellen Fields and I were interviewed on "Radio Survivor” about the Famous Computer Cafe radio show (she helped create it in the 1980s, I archived it this year.) The episode was posted online and begins airing today. www.radiosurvivor.com/2024/08/podc...
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...
amazing! been listening to these interviews while working on my Atari 2600 game— Douglas Adams! Infocom! even the ads are pretty sweet
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...
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.