Floppy Days 161 - Byte Shop Interviews

Floppy Days 161 - Byte Shop Interviews

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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