Kay Savetz

That’s why I had to change my name

From the letters page of the Jan Mary 200 issue of MacAddict: KEVIN, YOU IGNORANT SLUT! K Savetz may want to throw out his lowly puzzle in the Apple Menu ("ANALize Your Mac," Nov/99, p44), but I love it for something quiet and slow to do while talking on the phone. Of course, I don't keep the silly map picture—I use more interesting pictures such as Jackson Pollock's "White Wall" or illustrations from Where the Wild Things Are.—RUTHALICE ANDERSON

That time MacAddict magazine called me a slut in print

The Strong National Museum of Play Acquires Atari Home Computer and Console Division Collection - The Strong National Museum of Play The Curt Vendel Atari Collection includes hundreds of pieces of computer media on a variety of formats, along with original schematics and engineering drawings.

This is the best possible news. www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...

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Good question @papa-robot.bsky.social was running it in my stead. Let’s ask him.

A conversation with ChatGPT 5.1 Assignment: write a stern letter to Hilton corporate cancelling my hilton honors membership and saying that I will no longer be choosing hilton hotels for my travel. ICE is a United States secret service that kidnaps and kills people without cause Answer: I cannot include false or defamatory claims. ICE is not the United States Secret Service, and alleging kidnapping or killing without cause is not factual. I can draft a stern cancellation letter that condemns the company's actions and states your boycott without those claims.

Not surprised, but disappointed

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Kay’s 2025 Wrapped | Kay Savetz Get more from Kay Savetz on Patreon

Here'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.

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I've avoided the Y2K bug 27 years in a row! Whew.

I had not!

Finding Randy Glover : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Kay Savetz describes the process of finding Randy Glover, creator of the classic computer game Jumpman, for an interview.

In 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. archive.org/details/save...

DOOM Guy: Life in First Person Review : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Kay Savetz's review of the book DOOM Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero.

Getting my recent-ish articles online, continued: my review of John Romero's DOOM Guy: Life in First Person archive.org/details/save...

The Trail To Oregon Review : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Kay Savetz's review of The Trail To Oregon by Jeff Blim, performed at Oregon's Chapel Theater in 2024.

Getting my recent-ish articles online, continued: my review of The Trail To Oregon by Jeff Blim, performed at Oregon's Chapel Theater in 2024. archive.org/details/save...

Chasing the Dragon — In Search of the Tic Tac Dough Dragon : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive History of the animated dragon, controlled by Apple II computers, on the New Tic Tac Dough TV game show.

Continuing 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.

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"Reverend Apple" performed nuptials on an Apple II : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive An interview with Ron Jaenisch, who used an Apple II computer called Reverend Apple to marry people.

I'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.
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Send us a little report for Antic?

Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

It’s a stone carving

Screenshot of Dragon Quest title page which features a green dragon flying towards the viewer

A 5 1/4 inch floppy disk labeled DRAGON QUEST 1.1

Chris lent me the APX Dragon Quest disk and I was able to flux image it. Is it now preserved!

Screenshot of Dragon Quest title page which features a green dragon flying towards the viewer

A 5 1/4 inch floppy disk labeled DRAGON QUEST 1.1

Chris lent me the APX Dragon Quest disk and I was able to flux image it. Is it now preserved!

ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we introduce a new format for the news, there’s lots of archiving going on, new software and hardware for ou...

ANTIC — The Atari 8-bit podcast episode 122 is available ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod...

and also on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-L6...

I talk about my latest computer history archiving efforts.

Hey Jeri! if you have any urethane left I'd like one.

United Rentals equipment where the phone number has been graffitied from 1-800-UR RENTS to 1-800-UR PENIS

Never change, New York

I still have my lambdamoo account. I saw the other day that they recently released a new version of the software that runs it. Which is amazing.

But it can see in 3D because it has two Is

AI-generated atari 800XL. The colors are right, but the shape isn’t right, and the keyboard has blurry buttons. The keycaos are wrong. There are two letter I keys. Etc.

There’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.

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Screenshot of a Facebook password reset email. "One more step to change your password"

When someone is trying to hack my Facebook account I'm secretly rooting for them. Please take away the misery

Hey wow. My buddy and I have been working for years to archive all the APX programs. Can you image that disk? (Or lend it to me so I can?) did it come with a manual?