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Floppy Days 161 - Byte Shop Interviews
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- Mar 26, 2026
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Floppy Days 161 - Byte Shop Interviews Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper and https://thekeep.net FutureVision Research Tuc's Workbench Hello, and welcome to episode 161 of the Floppy Days Podcast for March, 2026. I am Randy Kindig, your host for this wild ride through vintage computing. This month I have a special episode prepared. For the 50th Anniversary event of the opening of the Byte Shop that occurred in California in December, 2025, I interviewed 11 different people with some sort of ties to Paul Terrell and the Byte Shop. Prior to the event itself, I published an approximately 30-minute-long video with just sound bites from those interviews to help get the word out ( https://youtu.be/ANR1fYicwxI ). This month, I've taken the complete interviews (except for one) and created a longer episode out of it so you can hear the entirety of the interviews. To be clear, each of the interviews has as its main topic the Byte Shop and Paul Terrell. However, at the same time, we're able to learn a bit about each of the people who have ties to the Byte Shop and Paul. For this month's show, the 9 total interviews include the following people: Rick Kahn, who worked at the Byte Shop of Placentia Michael Tomczyk, Vic-20 Czar at Commodore Rob Terrell, Paul's nephew and frequent visitor to the Byte Shop Chuck Mauro, worked at Apple and Byte Shop #2 Lee Felsenstein, developer of the SOL and Osborne computers Scott Shekels, frequent visitor to the Byte Shop Teryl & Gloria Burt, Northstar distributor to the Byte Shop Howell Ivy, developer of the Exidy Sorcerer and worked with Paul Terrell at Exidy Paul Freiberger, computer historian Intro 30-minute video of sound bites for Byte Shop 50th Anniversary Event - https://youtu.be/ANR1fYicwxI…