Atari 8-bit historian, Internet Archive ham radio archivist, interactive fiction podcaster. Portland Oregon.https://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3mioixkjst22mI’m a guest on this week’s This Week in Retro. Fun time! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Apr 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mioixkjst22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3miei4e7vak26I forgot to mention that ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast episode 126 is published. Title: "All Atari All The Time" https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-126-all-atari-all-the-time Also we've started doing a video version on YouTube, though I'm not sure how I feel about those. #facesforradio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HmQGjkhVC4&feature=youtu.be31 Mar 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3miei4e7vak26https://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3mgpnn26suk2k@tidbits.com I’m sorry for your loss, Adam https://www.iowaparkleader.com/arc-browser-shuts-down-a-heartbreaking-end-to-a-game-changing-era/10 Mar 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpnn26suk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3mebrszz52c2zThat time MacAddict magazine called me a slut in print07 Feb 2026 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mebrszz52c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3mdjzklsku227This is the best possible news. https://www.museumofplay.org/press-release/the-strong-national-museum-of-play-acquires-atari-home-computer-and-console-division-collection/29 Jan 2026 05:10 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdjzklsku227https://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3mbxnmlos6c2kNot surprised, but disappointed09 Jan 2026 04:24 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbxnmlos6c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3mbhqxhk3qs2cFaxZero, my internet fax service, delivered 1.11 million faxes in 2025! The top elected officials reached via my free Fax Your Reps service were: Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Ron Wyden, Dick Durbin, and Tammy Duckworth, all Democrats. https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php02 Jan 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhqxhk3qs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3mbfd2i7p522nHere's my annual letter taking stock of the computer history archiving work I've done over the past year. Kay's 2025 Wrapped: three interviews, thousands of artifacts, and a surprising amount of computer history rescued one disk, page, and binder at a time. https://www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2025-14718205601 Jan 2026 21:27 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbfd2i7p522nhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3mbexwj3qfc2mI've avoided the Y2K bug 27 years in a row! Whew.01 Jan 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbexwj3qfc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3mabw77gva22bIn 2016 I wrote an article for Pro(c) magazine (RIP) about the process I went through to find Randy Glover, creator of the best game for the best computer (Jumpman on the Atari 8-bit). I'm not sure they ever published it. Here is Finding Randy, online for the first time. https://archive.org/details/savetzarticle_finding-randy18 Dec 2025 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mabw77gva22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3ma7743gwic2pGetting my recent-ish articles online, continued: my review of John Romero's DOOM Guy: Life in First Person https://archive.org/details/savetzarticle_doom-guy-review17 Dec 2025 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma7743gwic2phttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3ma76xuni7k2pGetting my recent-ish articles online, continued: my review of The Trail To Oregon by Jeff Blim, performed at Oregon's Chapel Theater in 2024. https://archive.org/details/savetzarticle_the-trail-to-oregon-review17 Dec 2025 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma76xuni7k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3ma4larabg22mContinuing my effort to get my recent written work online for the first time, here's a fun piece I wrote last year: "Chasing the Dragon — In Search of the Tic Tac Dough Dragon". Featuring a popular game show, nine Apple IIs, Bob Bishop, and a scary animated dragon. https://archive.org/details/savetzarticle_tic-tac-dough16 Dec 2025 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4larabg22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3ma2f3jephc2cI've been working to get some articles that I've written in the last few years online for the first time. Here's the first, which I'm proud of—an interview with Ron Jaenisch, a Universal Life minister who used an Apple II computer called "Reverend Apple" to marry people. https://archive.org/details/savetzarticle_reverend-apple15 Dec 2025 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma2f3jephc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3m63r63xg5k2xZork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source20 Nov 2025 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m63r63xg5k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3m4dyfjlc7k2xANTIC — The Atari 8-bit podcast episode 122 is available https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-122-atypical-kay and also on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-L62JDSU5w&feature=youtu.be I talk about my latest computer history archiving efforts.29 Oct 2025 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4dyfjlc7k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3m3duov5ruc2eNever change, New York16 Oct 2025 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3duov5ruc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3m2cbhvcyok2xThere’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.03 Oct 2025 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2cbhvcyok2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3lzqr2f2dm22eWhen someone is trying to hack my Facebook account I'm secretly rooting for them. Please take away the misery26 Sep 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzqr2f2dm22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3lzmm276ekk2kNew 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! https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-121-dongle-disaster24 Sep 2025 23:35 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzmm276ekk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3lyj77tjtns2jHarry 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.10 Sep 2025 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyj77tjtns2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3lyimtmvkpc22In 1984 someone had their Atari 800 repoed 😭 (Also, what's a Vector 2600?)10 Sep 2025 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyimtmvkpc22https://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3lxze35h5v223Microsoft open-sources its 6502 BASIC from 1976 https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/microsoft_open_sources_6502_basic/04 Sep 2025 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxze35h5v223https://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3lxxu7qoqwk2hATARI in today’s NYT crossword puzzle04 Sep 2025 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxxu7qoqwk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3lxfplem3hc2hMy 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) https://archive.org/details/journal-de-mickey-album-130/page/n131/mode/2up (translation in alt text)27 Aug 2025 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxfplem3hc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3lwwa22lc2c2tIt followed me home, mom, can I keep it? I promise to feed and play with it every day.21 Aug 2025 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwa22lc2c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3ltsnroc7nk2pAnxious boy13 Jul 2025 00:50 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltsnroc7nk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3ltkw3zo6622bMy newspapers.com search for "Atari 800" turns up weird stuff from time to time09 Jul 2025 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:2xysuqwf6rtjtoo7aujkmtmq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltkw3zo6622b