Kay Savetz
@savetz.bsky.social
Atari 8-bit historian, Internet Archive ham radio archivist, interactive fiction podcaster. Portland Oregon.
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Chris lent me the APX Dragon Quest disk and I was able to flux image it. Is it now preserved!
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Chris lent me the APX Dragon Quest disk and I was able to flux image it. Is it now preserved!
ANTIC — The Atari 8-bit podcast episode 122 is available ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod...
and also on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-L6...
I talk about my latest computer history archiving efforts.
and also on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-L6...
I talk about my latest computer history archiving efforts.
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay
ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we introduce a new format for the news, there’s lots of archiving going on, new software and hardware for ou...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
ANTIC — The Atari 8-bit podcast episode 122 is available ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod...
and also on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-L6...
I talk about my latest computer history archiving efforts.
and also on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-L6...
I talk about my latest computer history archiving efforts.
Never change, New York
October 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Never change, New York
There’s a retrocomputing newsletter that I want to like. On the most recent issue cover, there is an AI generated Atari computer that’s just so terrible. If you have a hobby, do the hobby. Don’t let an LLM create it for you. I’d rather see a 3 year-old’s crayon drawing over this monstrosity.
October 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There’s a retrocomputing newsletter that I want to like. On the most recent issue cover, there is an AI generated Atari computer that’s just so terrible. If you have a hobby, do the hobby. Don’t let an LLM create it for you. I’d rather see a 3 year-old’s crayon drawing over this monstrosity.
When someone is trying to hack my Facebook account I'm secretly rooting for them. Please take away the misery
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
When someone is trying to hack my Facebook account I'm secretly rooting for them. Please take away the misery
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This issue is notable for an Atari BASIC program, written by Tom Hudson, that displays 3D graphics. Two years later, Hudson would release Cyber Studio CAD-3D for Atari ST, and a few years after that, it was reborn as 3D Studio for DOS, and finally, the ubiquitous 3DS MAX.
A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing/Analog Computing – No. 16 – February 1984 has been scanned in 600DPI by @thestacks.ca. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/09/a...
September 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This issue is notable for an Atari BASIC program, written by Tom Hudson, that displays 3D graphics. Two years later, Hudson would release Cyber Studio CAD-3D for Atari ST, and a few years after that, it was reborn as 3D Studio for DOS, and finally, the ubiquitous 3DS MAX.
New episode of ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast just dropped! Find out the latest news in the world of 8-bit Atari computers! Hear me say "dongle" in a way that makes my co-hosts uncomfortable! ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod...
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Episode 121 - Dongle Disaster
ANTIC Episode 121 - Dongle Disaster In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Special guest Brent Carroll joins as we bring you the Atari news and narrowly avoid disaster with our don...
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September 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
New episode of ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast just dropped! Find out the latest news in the world of 8-bit Atari computers! Hear me say "dongle" in a way that makes my co-hosts uncomfortable! ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod...
Harry Stewart (ex-Atari employee who programmed PILOT, WSFN, and other stuff) has died. His daughter sent me his Atari documents. Some of these I scanned years ago when he lent them to me. Others seem to be unpreserved.
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Harry Stewart (ex-Atari employee who programmed PILOT, WSFN, and other stuff) has died. His daughter sent me his Atari documents. Some of these I scanned years ago when he lent them to me. Others seem to be unpreserved.
In 1984 someone had their Atari 800 repoed 😭
(Also, what's a Vector 2600?)
(Also, what's a Vector 2600?)
September 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In 1984 someone had their Atari 800 repoed 😭
(Also, what's a Vector 2600?)
(Also, what's a Vector 2600?)
Microsoft open-sources its 6502 BASIC from 1976 www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...
Microsoft open-sources 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates
: GOTO 1976
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September 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Microsoft open-sources its 6502 BASIC from 1976 www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...
ATARI in today’s NYT crossword puzzle
September 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
ATARI in today’s NYT crossword puzzle
My automated searches for Atari 800 turn up weird things sometimes. Uploaded to @archive.org yesterday: Le Journal De Mickey - Album N°130 #1858 (2 février 1988)
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August 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My automated searches for Atari 800 turn up weird things sometimes. Uploaded to @archive.org yesterday: Le Journal De Mickey - Album N°130 #1858 (2 février 1988)
archive.org/details/jour...
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archive.org/details/jour...
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It followed me home, mom, can I keep it? I promise to feed and play with it every day.
August 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It followed me home, mom, can I keep it? I promise to feed and play with it every day.
My newspapers.com search for "Atari 800" turns up weird stuff from time to time
July 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My newspapers.com search for "Atari 800" turns up weird stuff from time to time
Look at these beautiful photos, recently digitized from slides, of the 1981 communications exhibit at the Capital Children’s Museum. (Featuring many photos of kids using Atari 8-bit computers!)
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Capital Children's Museum Communications Exhibit photos 1981 : Mark Tuschman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Photos from the Capital Children's Museum Communications Exhibit which opened November 1981. Images digitized from slides in June 2025.Photos by Mark...
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June 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Look at these beautiful photos, recently digitized from slides, of the 1981 communications exhibit at the Capital Children’s Museum. (Featuring many photos of kids using Atari 8-bit computers!)
archive.org/details/ccm-...
archive.org/details/ccm-...
It annoys and/or amuses me every week when I get my TidBITS newsletter in email, when Google warns me to be cAreFuL with this newsletter — which has existed years longer than Google. Of the two entities, TidBITS is more trustworthy by far. @adamengst.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It annoys and/or amuses me every week when I get my TidBITS newsletter in email, when Google warns me to be cAreFuL with this newsletter — which has existed years longer than Google. Of the two entities, TidBITS is more trustworthy by far. @adamengst.bsky.social
ATARI in today’s NYT crossword puzzle
May 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
ATARI in today’s NYT crossword puzzle
Atari in today’s NYT crossword puzzle
May 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Atari in today’s NYT crossword puzzle
Caroline contemplates @paulrickards.bsky.social plotter art.
May 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Caroline contemplates @paulrickards.bsky.social plotter art.
Another trip to the PO Box; another pile of scam invoices from Domain Networks
April 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Another trip to the PO Box; another pile of scam invoices from Domain Networks
@scalzi.com I’m enjoying Moon! The pickiest of nits: I don’t think anyone who works at SNL would ever, ever call one of their bits a “skit”. They’re “sketches”.
April 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
@scalzi.com I’m enjoying Moon! The pickiest of nits: I don’t think anyone who works at SNL would ever, ever call one of their bits a “skit”. They’re “sketches”.
Some guy is launching a new retrocomputing magazine called… COMPUTE!’s Gazette. The original magazine of that name was devoted to C64 only, but apparently this one will cover other platforms too 🤷🏻♀️
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Iconic Compute!'s Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Years, Expands Focus to Entire Retro Computing | FinancialContent
Iconic Compute!'s Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Years, Expands Focus to Entire Retro Computing
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April 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Some guy is launching a new retrocomputing magazine called… COMPUTE!’s Gazette. The original magazine of that name was devoted to C64 only, but apparently this one will cover other platforms too 🤷🏻♀️
markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/artic...
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Here's my new interview with Bill and David Lappen, founders of Buy-Phone. Launched 1982, it may be the first online yellow pages. It provided business listings, movie times, and personal ads in the Los Angeles area, for free to callers at up to 1200 bits per second. youtu.be/jUXe_HN9SYE
Bill and David Lappen, Buy-Phone founders — interview
YouTube video by Kay Savetz
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March 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Here's my new interview with Bill and David Lappen, founders of Buy-Phone. Launched 1982, it may be the first online yellow pages. It provided business listings, movie times, and personal ads in the Los Angeles area, for free to callers at up to 1200 bits per second. youtu.be/jUXe_HN9SYE
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New interview published on ANTIC Podcast:
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ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Interview 452 - Dean Garraghty, DGS Software
ANTIC Interview 452 - Dean Garraghty Hello, and welcome to this interview-only episode of ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit computer podcast. I’m Randy Kindig, your host for this episode. Dean Garraghty is...
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January 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
New interview published on ANTIC Podcast:
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