If you had any experience at all with the eight bit computers of the late 1970s through the mid 1980s... even if that experience was limited to wishing your family could afford to buy one (...a decent used car could be purchased for the same price as some of these), then this podcast is a “Must Listen”. Otherwise, if you’re curious as to how a powerful computer ended up in your pocket when four decades ago most computers were found only in the data centers of large corporations, the answers are here. And in many cases, the stories have been told during interviews with the people that made it happen.

The information presented is great. Meanwhile the execution is awful. Countless times you’ll hear the host opening wrappers, moving paper, or just making noise while his guest is talking. Not to mention you can skip the first 30-40 minutes of every episode because it’s just the one guy talking about his equipment. Also, one episode a month is hard to get past. That being said the content itself is pretty decent

Well edited, enjoyable reminiscences of the early days of personal computers. Discussions and interviews lead to great insights into different computer manufacturers of the time.

As with all episodes of Floppy Days, episodes 59, and 60 were particularly interesting to me. I was so intrigued by the HP-41 series calculators, that I bought the i41CX emulator for iOS, while I’m looking for a real HP-41 CX. Randy did a great job discussing the history of this fantastic device as well as illustrate the currently available upgrades for the HP-41. I’ve listened to Floppy Days since the first episode, and have listened to several episodes a second time, to make sure I didn’t miss anything. As a result of listening to Floppy Days, I now listen to more than 10 other retrocomputing podcasts. I enjoy being accompanied by Floppy Days on my daily commute, and quite often can’t wait to the next day, so that I can continue listening to each episode. Great job Randy Kindig!

Maybe you got a computer when you were a kid. You played games on it, did your homework on it, made cool graphics on it or wrote code on it. Be prepared to remember. Also, prepare to become interested in computers besides the one that you had, the ones on the periphery. Powerful stuff. Thank you for this.

I've recently gotten into several of the retro computer podcasts. It's a lot of fun to listen to Randy talk about vintage computers, and his knowledge and experience makes for a valuable contribution. Well done, and regularly updated.

Randy Kindig does an awesome job of bringing Retro-computers back to life. He provides awesome information, new news, interviews with extremely knowledgable experts from both those who were in it "back in the day" and those who are relevant today. Thanks for the great info and entertainment

Perfect podcast for learning the ins and outs of many different vintage computers. Great work!

Started listening to this, expecting it to be heavily slanted towards one or two popular brands of vintage personal computer from the last half of the 1970's through the 1980's. What I found was something more level headed and honest. What convinced me was when I listened to the Color Computer getting treated the same was as every other computer from this time in history. This sort of treatment was unheard of back in the day when the CoCo was regarded by most others as something between a game machine and a fancy kid's toy.

Thank you for this extremely informative and detailed review of these classic machines! Now if you could just find a way for someone to have a vintage computer faire on the west coast, that would be fantastic!

Just a great job on the podcast - keep up the great job. It is wonderful to walk down memory lane again.

You can tell that Randall is doing this for fun and this is his way of sharing it with everyone (and reminding himself of WHY this is fun.)

This podcast is a great source of information about the early computers. It covers a wide range of the early machines such as the Altair, Apple I, programmable calculators and other areas of interest to vintage computers. You can find out a particular machine, its history in the market place, and interesting stories about that particular machine being discussed. If you are curious to what the early computers were like to use, this is a good podcast to listen to.