The CD-ROM Episode
Episode 19 of the Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It podcast, hosted by Jason Scott, titled "The CD-ROM Episode" was published on February 14, 2018 and runs 28 minutes.
February 14, 2018 ·28m · Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It
Episode Description
The CD-ROM Episode: Open-armed Historian, CD-ROMs, Quartz and Early CDs, Analog, Reader Service CD-ROMs, CD-ROM Industry, Shareware, The Depths of Shareware, Patent Troll Vanquished, Robots Playing Pac-Man, Forever, Taxes.
After a discussion with a book author about a subject tangentially related to some of the interviews I did in the BBS Documentary, I hauled my collection of Mini-DV tapes out of storage and I've begun uploading their contents to the Internet Archive. The collection is here:
https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary?sort=-publicdate
If you want to browse around the CD-ROM collection I mention in this episode, it's here:
https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive
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