Computer Chronicles Revisited

Editor's note: In August 2023, I published an episode of Chronicles Revisited Podcast on Brøderbund Software and its 1985 product, Science Toolkit.

The October 2026 issue of Computer Chronicles Revisited looks at a November 1989 episode on new portable computers.

Editor's note: In December 2024, I published an episode of Chronicles Revisited Podcast on the history of Gavilan Computer Corporation.

After more than five years as a blog, Computer Chronicles Revisited is now a monthly subscription newsletter.

The September 2026 issue of Computer Chronicles Revisited looks at an October 1989 episode on artificial intelligence.

Last year Nathaniel Lockhart, host of The Memory Machine Podcast, assembled a roundtable of video game and computer historians to answer the question: What is the first personal computer?

Editor's note: In November 2025, I published an episode of Chronicles Revisited Podcast on the history of Software Publishing Corporation.

Editor's note: In March 2026, I published an episode of Chronicles Revisited Podcast on the life and career of Stewart Cheifet.

Ed Zitron, one of the few people who regularly writes longer blog posts than me, is perhaps the foremost critic of the present culture surrounding large language models (LLMs) and other so-called artificial intelligence tools.

In the early days of personal computer software, you would often develop a program first and figure out how to sell it later.

July 20, 1989, marked the 20th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin becoming the first men to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission.

For 19 seasons, Stewart Cheifet was the face of Computer Chronicles, serving as the show's host and executive producer.

There's long been a missing part of Computer Chronicles history.

In June 1989, George Morrow told Wendy Woods that he was designing a new laptop computer for South Korea’s Trigem Corporation.

Stewart Cheifet, the creator, executive producer, and host of Computer Chronicles for 19 seasons, died on December 28, 2025, at the age of 87, according to an obituary published by Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Funeral Directors, Inc., in Philadelphia, Pennsylv…

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In March 1989, Atari Corporation chairman Jack Tramiel paid his first visit to Australia, where he delivered the opening address at Sydney’s PC89 computer exhibition.

During his Indian travelogue, Stewart Cheifet discussed India’s role at the forefront of UNIX software development, a collateral effect of IBM’s withdrawal from the country’s computer market in the late 1970s.