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ComputerTalk with Dave Mason
The official archive of all available ComputerTalk with Dave Mason radio shows. Spend some time with Dave. Listen to a full show or explore clips by topic.
3,475 unique clips. Each clip appears in one section. Historical conversations, not current advice. Full episodes remain available separately by date.
190 clips, strongest first.
Dr. Dave and Evil Steve work out that the original show began in the spring almost twenty years earlier, then laugh about still running the same commercials because the audience enjoys the nostalgia.
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Dr. Dave interrupts the planned Apple update because he does not want the show to pass without remembering Ray Bradbury. He and Evil Steve discuss Fahrenheit 451, then Dr. Dave praises Bradbury's unusual ideas, creativity and groundbreaking style after the writer's death at ninety-one.
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Dr. Dave says the preserved veterans’ stories give him goosebumps and describes their memorial with genuine emotion, not merely a website recommendation.
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After receiving a simple answer about Google Maps, longtime caller Stan tells Dr. Dave and Evil Steve that they have been fabulous over the years. Dr. Dave thanks him and says it is good to have him joining them every Saturday.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve replay a Computer Talk Christmas song recorded years earlier by four- or five-year-old Abigail Prochnow. Dr. Dave remembers fitting her a cappella performance to music and matching its changing pace, preserving an affectionate piece of the show's history and the people who helped make it.
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Dr. Dave announces the original archive, its month/date navigation, eight segments and topic descriptions. Particularly meaningful context for the restored archive, and not found by keyword retrieval.
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A dated station promo prompts Dr. Dave and Evil Steve to recognize that the show had begun twenty years earlier in April 1991 and had reached its tenth anniversary as a national broadcast in July 2011.
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A young listener's affectionate song turns computer crashes, backups, Dr. Dave's advice and Evil Steve's teasing into a warm portrait of how the audience understood the show.
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New raffle donations show the momentum behind Randy’s memorial ride, and Dr. Dave describes the growing event as an incredible positive response to Kelly’s devastating loss.
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Susie says injuries and limited income have left her unable to afford a computer, but that she wants one to find homes and better care for rescued animals. Dr. Dave tells her she is not asking for something for nothing, researches the question during the break and returns with two local organizations that may be able to help or point her to a program.
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Big John calls after missing the anniversary and remembers the frightening first day, working online with the network, adjusting the satellite dish, handling phones and fixing the studio computer. Dr. Dave and Evil Steve credit the first producer as instrumental to the show, recall the cramped studio and pizza and invite him to return.
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During another Test and Tune discussion, Evil Steve pauses to thank longtime listener Tom for visiting and donating large-format printing, and Dr. Dave immediately joins in the gratitude.
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Dr. Dave says celebrity deaths rarely become personally emotional for him, yet he felt a soft spot for Jobs after witnessing the computer business and its chaos from inside the wider industry. He is careful not to claim a personal friendship while explaining why this loss felt different.
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Opening the second hour on Memorial Day weekend, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve honor those who died for the country and remind listeners that living veterans can still be thanked directly. Dr. Dave connects that gratitude to the freedom that allows them to make the radio show.
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Dr. Dave says Memorial Day has grown more meaningful as he has aged and thanks those who gave their lives, those who returned carrying the cost and the service members who supported the front lines through transportation, medicine and administration. He asks listeners to pause amid the weekend activities, remember the fallen and thank veterans who are still present.
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Dr. Dave explains that a fire in an electrical vault at Seattle's Fisher Plaza had temporarily taken DaveMason.com and several other services offline, and describes why losing the site during a live broadcast mattered so much to the program.
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Looking back at the Christmas Eve broadcast, Dr. Dave jokes that the archive contains no best of material and then explains the real reason the brothers are live on another holiday. They enjoy coming in on Saturday, feel connected personally and intimately with listeners and believe needing motivation for the show would mean something was wrong.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve pause the show to thank friends and listeners serving in every branch of the Armed Forces, including those away from the front lines. Their gratitude is direct and characteristic of the program's worldview.
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With Gratitude playing for Mother's Day weekend, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve urge listeners who cannot visit or share a meal with their mothers to at least call and say they are loved. It is a simple and affectionate departure from the show's usual technical subjects.
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Dr. Dave tells callers who could not write down every step to use the original site's eight-month show archive and replay an answer as often as needed. He says each day's broadcast would be posted about ninety minutes after the show, documenting how the radio program and website supported one another.
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On the day before Veterans Day, Dr. Dave says the veterans he meets are almost always extraordinarily humble. He thanks not only those wounded in combat but everyone cooking, digging, driving and doing paperwork, because every role helps make freedom possible.
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Dean thanks Dr. Dave and Evil Steve for making shows available when he cannot listen live, and Dr. Dave says the archive has become by far the most popular part of the website.
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Two weeks into the 2012 return, Dr. Dave admits that having two months free had felt good, but says he genuinely loves doing Computer Talk. After nearly twenty years on the air, the first real sabbatical left him feeling strange and out of sorts.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve congratulate Ken Allen and the staff of their Gulfport affiliate for getting back on the air after Hurricane Katrina. Their welcome records both the reach of Computer Talk and the brothers’ admiration for people who kept working to restore ordinary life after devastation.
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Browse by year, then month, to find the episodes from that month.
442 proposed broadcast dates, plus 2 undated entries. Dates are based on archive filenames and may be approximate. Some broadcasts survive as separate parts or incomplete recordings.
