Archives of the 1980s radio show 'The Famous Computer Cafe,' including interviews with Bill Gates and others, are discovered and available for anyone to download from the Internet Archive



The Famous Computer Cafe, a radio show broadcast in Southern and Central California in the 1980s, featured computer industry news, product reviews, and interviews with celebrities. The archives of The Famous Computer Cafe had been missing for many years, but in early 2024, part of the archive was discovered. Then, on August 19, 2024, the Internet Archive announced that it had digitized the archive and made it available to the public.

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The Famous Computer Cafe, which aired on radio stations in Southern and Central California from 1983 to 1986, featured technology industry news, product reviews, and interviews with

a variety of notable people , including computer experts, musicians, publishers, philosophers, and journalists.

The Famous Computer Cafe interviews American psychologist Timothy Leary , screenwriter Douglas Adams , former president of Atari , Jack Tramiel , software engineer Bill Atkinson , and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates .

The recordings of 'The Famous Computer Cafe' were stored on reel-to-reel cameras , and over time, most of them were lost. However, in early 2024, podcaster Kay Savetz discovered some of the recordings of 'The Famous Computer Cafe' while in the middle of a real estate transaction. Savetz raised donations to digitize the recordings and, with the permission of the show's creators, made them available on the Internet Archive.



The recording data for 'The Famous Computer Cafe' released by the Internet Archive this time is from November 17, 1984 to July 12, 1985, and the recording data including interviews with poet

Ray Bradbury and electronic engineer Robert Moog have not been found at the time of writing.

The discovered data for 'The Famous Computer Cafe' can be viewed and downloaded from the following link.

The Famous Computer Cafe : Free : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe

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