Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-02-08, an interview with James Copland, vice president and director of marketing at Atari. Aired on KFOX.
Digitized from reel-to-reel tape by Harbor Digitizing of Friday Harbor, Washington.
The Famous Computer Cafe recovery and digitization project was done by Kay Savetz in 2024. If you have access to other episodes of Famous Computer Cafe on tape, please contact Kay Savetz.
0:00 Intro to show
0:52 Ad for The Warehouse - Dollars and Sense software by Monogram
1:27 silence [for ad insertion]
1:53 interview with James Copland, VP of Marketing for Atari US Corp.; Jack Tramiel purchase of Atari in July 1984; products for 1985 including cost reduction; “we sell computers to people”; business vs. home computers; 65XE with new software package Infinity (spreadsheet/word processing/database/graphics); low cost computers and software; youth and computers; what a personal computer does and why to buy one for home; electronics in automobiles; programmable telephones; telecomputing; concern about Japanese MSX competition; universal operating system; anti-trust laws; Amiga and who owns the rights; new computer introductions by Atari
24:50 silence [for ad insertion]
25:10 closing and ad for The Warehouse
The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-02-08, an interview with James Copland, vice president and director of marketing at Atari. Aired on KFOX.
Digitized from reel-to-reel tape by Harbor Digitizing of Friday Harbor, Washington.
The Famous Computer Cafe recovery and digitization project was done by Kay Savetz in 2024. If you have access to other episodes of Famous Computer Cafe on tape, please contact Kay Savetz.
0:00 Intro to show
0:52 Ad for The Warehouse - Dollars and Sense software by Monogram
1:27 silence [for ad insertion]
1:53 interview with James Copland, VP of Marketing for Atari US Corp.; Jack Tramiel purchase of Atari in July 1984; products for 1985 including cost reduction; “we sell computers to people”; business vs. home computers; 65XE with new software package Infinity (spreadsheet/word processing/database/graphics); low cost computers and software; youth and computers; what a personal computer does and why to buy one for home; electronics in automobiles; programmable telephones; telecomputing; concern about Japanese MSX competition; universal operating system; anti-trust laws; Amiga and who owns the rights; new computer introductions by Atari
24:50 silence [for ad insertion]
25:10 closing and ad for The Warehouse
