Mastodawn

Watching vintage episodes of Computer Chronicles this weekend. Just did a Kagi search and saw that Stewart Cheifet passed away a few days ago. RIP. May we all be so enthusiastic about our tech. #computerchronicles #pbs #vintagecomputing #stewartcheifet

hollow-one Jan 7

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/stewart-cheifet-pbs-host-who-chronicled-the-pc-revolution-dies-at-87/ First thought was Oh no... but considering age I just wanted to say rest in peace sir, you've made multiple of generations curious about computers and you'll be remembered

#rip #stewartcheifet #retrocomputing

Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87

Cheifet produced more than 400 episodes of TV tracing the rise of personal computing.

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ClaudioM Jan 6

A little late on this one, but #RIP #StewartCheifet. 🙏🏻 #ComputerChronicles

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Morgan Aldridge Jan 6

I really don't think I'd be in #IT and #SoftwareDevelopment if it weren't for the #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting #CPB #PBS, especially #StewartCheifet's #ComputerChronicles & #NetCafe, #RobertXCringely's #TriumphOfTheNerds and #NerdsTwoPointOhOne #ABriefHistoryOfTheInternet.

Our first #TV was a tiny B&W Sony that my grandfather had bought for my parents (later used with my #VIC20.) Our first color TV had broken audio, so set ontop of a B&W TV with no picture but working sound. No joke.

Morgan Aldridge Jan 6

Why does the #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting dissolution feel like such a hard blow? Less than a month after #StewartCheifet's passing, whose #ComputerChronicles & #NetCafe were partially funded by the #CPB and aired on #PBS, no less!

Growing up, I had books, radio, and over-the-air TV. I experienced computers through family, friends, school, and _especially_ #TV. My first computers were hand-me-downs (a #Commodore #VIC20, then an #IBM #PS2). I didn't get #Internet until much later.

Morgan Aldridge Jan 6

Yesterday, while working on infrastructure updates that ultimately ended up taking _much longer_ than anticipated, I queued up some #ComputerChronicles episodes in honor of #StewartCheifet's recent passing (2025-12.)

One of the selected episodes was "The Ultimate Gamer's PC" (2001-06-05):

https://archive.org/details/CC1851ULTIMATE_201504

Extra gut punch around 19:11 when he interviews #GordonMahUng who passed away in late 2024-12:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2564783/gordon-mah-ung-remembered.html

Stewart got ~29 more years than Gordon.

The Ultimate Gamer's PC : Computer Chronicles : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A user's guide on how to buy, or build, the ultimate gaming PC. The program looks at CPUs, sound cards, and graphic cards. Demonstrations include the NVidia...

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Ars Technica News Jan 5

Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87 https://arstechni.ca/rakC #ComputerChronicles #Vintagecomputing #computerhistory #InternetArchive #machinelearning #retrocomputing #StewartCheifet #GaryKildall #Obituaries #retrotech #Tech #PBS #AI

Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87

Cheifet produced more than 400 episodes of TV tracing the rise of personal computing.

Ars Technica

Jason Yip Jan 1

#StewartCheifet, #ComputerChronicles Host, Dies At 87 https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/12/31/2149206/stewart-cheifet-computer-chronicles-host-dies-at-87

Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Host, Dies At 87 - Slashdot

Pibroch(CiH) writes: According to the obituary linked, Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame has died. The obituary states he passed Dec 28, 2025. Cheifet and Digital Research founder Gary Kildall hosted the public television show The Computer Chronicles starting in 1984, and Stewart continued...

Xylemon Jan 1

Was sadden to learn about the recent passing of Stewart Cheifet today. I was working on this song earlier this year, where I sampled his voice and some others from a Computer Chronicles episodes about the then new and exciting "Internet".

This is still an unfinished demo, but I post it as is in tribute.

RIP to a legend.

A good read about him if it interests you:
https://computerchronicles.blog/post/stewart-cheifet-1938-2025/

#StewartCheifet #ComputerChronicles #RIP #PC #Computers #Tech #Music #GlobalVillage #LMMS