Floppy Days 156 - Interview with Paul Schindler, Computer Chronicles

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Paul Schindler, discussing his experiences with the Computer Chronicles and the tech industry.

Floppy Days 156 - Interview with Paul Schindler, Computer Chronicles 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 156 of the Floppy Days Podcast for October, 2025. I'm Randy Kindig, your host for this "retro"spective covering vintage computers of the late 70's through the 80's and the people who were on the forefront of that incredible revolution. This month, I'm bringing you another interview episode with a tech media personality that was involved with the Computer Chronicles TV show (among many other things): Mr. Paul Schindler. Paul has a big personality and has a lot of great stories about Computer Chronicles and about the tech industry in general in those days. I really enjoyed talking with Paul and he made me laugh a lot! As you know, if you're a regular listener, I was able to interview Stewart Cheifet some ago about Computer Chronicles. Computer Chronicles was a great way to get information about computers in those early days and I've always wanted to do some follow-up. Thanks to S.M. Oliva, who is mentioned in the resulting interview, and who…

People in this episode

Host: Randy Kindig

Guest: Paul Schindler

Topics covered

• vintage computing
• Computer Chronicles
• technology history
• interview
• retro computing

Keywords

• vintage computers
• Computer Chronicles
• Paul Schindler
• technology history
• retro computing

Sponsors

8-Bit Classics, Arcade Shopper, FutureVision Research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Computer Chronicles, S.M. Oliva, Computer Chronicles Revisited, FutureVision Research, Tuc's Workbench

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