I’m involved in a project to digitize “lost” episodes of Computer Chronicles that were missed in the first pass at the Internet Archive.

You can watch newly digitized episodes here. More are coming in the new year.

We’re also building a comprehensive metadata database of every episode. Notably the TVDB metadata is not accurate or complete.

You can see that here, noting that it is still a work in progress.

conradev 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Searchable transcripts would be a fun addition! I would love to be able to find mentions of specific software (in addition to a formal segment on it)

	▲	wonger_ 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've had this on my back burner! Glad to see someone else wants this as well. The Internet Archive already has transcripts generated by whisper.cpp, so it's (just) a matter of gathering them into one place and making a good search feature. Example transcript (JSON): https://archive.org/download/episode_1109/episode_1109_whisp... Screenshot from a month ago: https://wonger.dev/assets/chronicles-screenshot.png I can reach out to their project to see if they're interested.

wonger_ 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How do you find the missing episodes?

We were granted access to the collection of Stewart Cheifet's tapes.

	▲	toomuchtodo 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Thank you for your team’s work to preserve this collection.
	▲	xgulfie 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Thank you for doing this

rbanffy 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Thank you for doing this.