Video interview with Paul Terrell, Part 4, the man who started the Byte Shop, kickstarted Apple and worked with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, now available for all to view!
https://youtu.be/6GRBfvW5YAg
Floppy Days-Randy Kindig
The official Mastodon account of the Floppy Days Podcast (floppydays.com): a vintage computer podcast that covers home computers of the late 70's through the 80's. Also contains numerous interviews with significant players in the development and growth of home computers from the same time period.
Passed the 11th anniversary of the podcast!
Randy Kindig: host
Find all about the reboot of Compute's Gazette Magazine!
https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-151-interview-with-james-nagle-reboot-of-computes-gazette
New episode of Next Without For Podcast!
TOPIC: Atari 8-bit Development Environments
https://www.nextwithoutfor.org/2025/05/show-015-atari-8-bit-programming.html
Floppy Days-Randy Kindig boosted:
I'm going back through the @ataripodcast library and heard @savetz mention a fun interview with Mark Knutsen, who won first prize at a science fair with his simulation of the gravitational interactions between four stars, which he implemented in #ValFORTH on an #Atari800 after reading an article by A. K. Dewdney in the January 1986 #ScientificAmerican magazine, outlining how star cluster behaviour is investigated using computational models.
The interview with Mark Knutsen is on YouTube, where he demonstrates his program running in an emulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwLgCPqi8FA
The same video on archive.org, if YouTube gives you the ick: https://archive.org/details/mark-knutsen
Mark's software as Atari disk images: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/324288-marks-1986-science-fair-project/
The podcast episode on which I heard Kay's mention of the interview: https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-81-whos-in-control-the-atari-or-the-pi
The ValFORTH documentation, if you're inspired to explore further: https://archive.org/details/ValFORTHDocumentation/mode/1up
Thank you @savetz (and @floppydays!) for your time and effort arranging, recording, editing and publishing these interviews. It's important social history of a unique time and circumstance.
Floppy Days-Randy Kindig boosted:
Jeff Piepmeier and Ben Krein will be at VCF East Apr. 4-6 showing off #FujiNet and its progress, this year. Including the #RS232 version, the #Atari2600 version (based on PlusCart) and more! #retrocomputing #retrogaming
@fluidlogic Sounds great! Enjoy that weekend! I wish I could get over to the UK to see that show.
Floppy Days 144, video interview with Don French and Steve Leininger (developers of the TRS-80 Model I), now available for everyone!
https://youtu.be/d3AnJgj-Gvk
Floppy Days 143 - Paul Terrell, the Byte Shop Part 3, video interview now available for everyone!:
https://youtu.be/ISQQisI5ngc
Floppy Days 149 is out!
The HP97 Programmable Calculator, Part 2 with Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz
Early access Video available for Patreon supporters
https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-149-the-hp97-programmable-calculator-part-2-with-wlodek-mier-jedrzejowicz
Latest Floppy Days, with early access video of Wlodek’s interview and HP97 history discussion available for Patreon supporters:
https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-148-hp97-history-and-memories-with-wlodek-mier-jedrzejowicz-and-everett-kaser
Video interview with Paul Terrell, who kickstarted the early Apple by purchasing a batch of Apple I computers for his shop.
Subject: The Byte Shop (Part 2)
Now available for everyone after having been early access for Patreon supporters!
https://youtu.be/L9eag-5WOhA
New episode of Next Without For Podcast!
The History of BASIC @retrobits https://www.nextwithoutfor.org/2025/02/show-014-history-of-basic.html
Feb. 17, 2025 was the anniversary of the publication of the first episode of the Floppy Days Podcast (https://www.floppydays.com)! Thanks, everyone, for the support all these years!
Newest Floppy Days! Meet Lorenzo Hagerty, who founded Dynasty Computers back in 1979!
https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-147-lorenzo-hagerty-dynasty-computers
Video interview of Paul Terrell, discussing his Byte Shop (Part 1), now available for everyone!
https://youtu.be/v9rOaYbKvdc
@inverseatascii that's perfect, Wade!
Floppy Days-Randy Kindig boosted:
@floppydays hey Randy I’ll submit one in the next week or so.
Can one of the listeners of Floppy Days Podcast please volunteer to do a 3-5 minute audio clip for the next "Meet the Listeners" section of the podcast?
It's your time to shine! 🙂
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