Floppy Days 150 - Interview with David Greelish, Apple Lisa Documentary
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Interview with David Greelish, Apple Lisa Documentary
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Hello, and welcome to episode 150 of the Floppy Days Podcast for April, 2025. My name is Randy Kindig and I'm the host for this journey through the annals of home computer history.
This month, I'm going to step aside from the ongoing series of episodes about the HP 97/67 programmable calculators to bring you a timely interview with a good friend about an interesting topic. That friend is David Greelish, a computer historian, and the topic is his recent publication of a film documentary about the Apple Lisa, called "Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa". David tells us all about the film, why he produced it, why the Apple Lisa was an important part of home computer history, who he interviewed for the film (he had some amazing guests) and much more. It's a great film and should interest a lot of the listeners, so please consider going out and purchasing the film in order to support David's efforts.
For upcoming shows, we do have one more episode in the series on the HP97 with HP calculator historian Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz. I will air that episode very soon.
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Documentary and Classic Computing Links
Classic Computing Website - https://www.classiccomputing.com/Classic_Computing/Blog/Blog.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psAeTDYezdo - "Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa" Full Documentary Film
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Classic Computing - the book! - https://www.classiccomputing.com/Classic_Computing/My_Book.html
Documentary link at IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31122934/