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1994 Computer Chronicles SW Review Pilot NEVER BEFORE SEEN
Stewart Cheifet, Paul Schindler and Gina Smith in the unsold 1994 pilot
Comphron-adjacent: Paul Schindler computer video from elsewhere
Comphron-Adjacent Computer News Segment for FNN (later CNBC)
Week of July 29, 1986. I have no recollection of recording this; I would have had to go into San Francisco to record this for Financial News Network (later CNBC) in a studio. It may have had something to do with weekly computer news summary someone (I forget who) was paying me to write on The Source.
Compchron-adjacent Part 1 Mar 1991 CMP PCVision
Compchron-adjacent Part 2 Mar 1991 CMP PCVision
Failed pilot, killed by the sudden plunge in tech industry advertising budgets after the First Iraq war. It was not the only industry supposed to be a weekly VHS videotape (look it up) sold by subscription. The anchor is Clark Barrett, an actor we hired because he looked and sounded like an anchor. I had never participated in an actor audition process before; it is painful on both sides. He won because, only a decade after Walter Cronkite retired (once important TV guy) he had that avuncular, older white guy vibe with a deep, deep voice, that people in TV still liked in the dark ages; not necessarily viewers, but the people who made TV.
Ironically CMP had to call it PC Vision because Stewart had already wrapped up the name PCTV.
Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK, came to my home in 2004 for a feature on the computerized home office. Careful observers will notice several locations used on software reviews. Bonus: at the end is an interview with me conducted by the middle-school tv station during my first year of teaching 8th grade US history (not CompChron-Adjacent at all)
CompChron-Adjacent 1997 CMP FirstTV web wars segment
Video on the Internet before the Internet was capable of it
Computer Chronicles Clips You May Not Have Seen In This Form
March 1984 Compchron Season 1 Show 11 Word Processing with Gary Kildall on panel
Computer Chronicles Clips That Have Been Around A While
Computer Chronicles: Paul Schindler Review Shtick Supercut
S.M. Oliva (Computer Chronicles Revisited, https://www.smoliva.blog/) prepared this supercut of the shtick with which I began every review for eight years. His blog contains a list of every product I reviewed.
Computer Chronicles: Paul Schindler Pans The Macintosh
On, March 19, 1985 Paul Schindler became one of the few reviewers to pan the recently introduced Apple Macintosh
Computer Chronicles Paul Schindler Piracy Commentary
February 1, 1985, Paul Schindler, complete with shtick, offers his opinions on software piracy during the dark ages of personal computing
Paul E. Schindler Jr.
