#videodiscs

Various doodles, March 2026

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This issue’s cover feature was a Commodore 64-to-videodisc interface system from Gary Kildall’s Digital Research Inc., one small effort in a decade-long attempt to make up for somehow not having managed to provide the default operating system for the IBM PC. There was also an extended feature on “the computerized home of the future” that included an article by science fiction author Norman Spinrad, who did seem to strike a much less acerbic note than I associate with his fiction. As a note, the next two issues of Popular Computing aren't available on the Internet Archive.

This issue took another look at the application of videodiscs to computer games.

Buy the rest of the videodiscs I have in the store for $15. There are 135 of them! #videodiscs #firesale (at Fat Rabbit Thrift & Vintage)

This issue caught up to Creative Computing in looking at the then still-diffuse potential of interfacing videodiscs to computers. Some notice might be taken of the large (possibly eight-inch) floppy discs below the laserdisc.

Dropping a stack of videodiscs at Jersey now! Buck each. #videodiscs #vinyl #vinyligclub #JupiterNJ #dollarbins (at Jupiter Records)

All Videodiscs™ are now 50¢ each or 5 for $4! #thingswehave #fatrabbitky #videodiscs #hot😎 (at Fat Rabbit Thrift & Vintage)