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.
The stories of how The Famous Computer Cafe was created — and saved, 40 years later — is explored in an episode of the Radio Survivor podcast. The podcast interviewed show co-creator Ellen Fields and archivist Kay Savetz, providing a dual perspective of how the show was created and how it was recovered.
The recovery of these interviews, 40 years after their phone number list original airing, holds out hope that many more relics and treasures still await discovery.
A view into a cardboard box filled with 27 smaller boxes, each carefully labeled with a radio station call letters, date, and interviewee name. For instance, KFOX - 12/28 - DR. TIMOTHY LEARY
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LISTEN: New POLITICO Tech podcast episode out, ‘Meet the man archiving Biden’s presidency’
Posted on August 13, 2024 by Chris Freeland
Episode: ‘Meet the man archiving Biden’s presidency’
From POLITICO Tech: “The transition from one presidential administration to the next is generally thought to start around Election Day and end with the inauguration. But for the Internet Archive, it’s already underway. The nonprofit leads a coalition of libraries and universities that works to preserve the government’s digital history and to protect it from partisan tampering during administration changes. On POLITICO Tech, host Steven Overly discusses what it takes to archive a president with the Internet Archive’s Mark Graham.”
Listen now: