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

August 20, 2024, 20:00:00

The Famous Computer Cafe, a radio show that aired in Southern and Central California in the 1980s, featured computer industry news, product reviews, and celebrity interviews. The archives of The Famous Computer Cafe were lost 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 Café, 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 well-known people, including computer experts, musicians, publishers, philosophers and journalists.

The Famous Computer Cafe interviews the American psychologist Timothy Leary Screenwriter Douglas Adams former president of Atari Jack Tramiel Software developer Bill Atkinson and former CEO of Microsoft Bill Gates .

The recordings of 'The Famous Computer Cafe' were saved on Tape cameras and over time most of them were lost. But in early 2024 Kay Savetz discovered some of the footage from “The Famous Computer Cafe” during a real estate transaction. Savetz raised funds to digitize the footage and, with the permission of the show's creators, made it available on the Internet Archive.

The recording dates for “The Famous Computer Cafe,” released this time by the Internet Archive, are from November 17, 1984 to July 12, 1985, and the recording dates include interviews with the poet

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

The data collected for “The Famous Computer Cafe” can be viewed and downloaded at the following link.

The Famous Computer Cafe : Free : Free download, rent and stream : Internet Archive