Kay Savetz

@savetz.bsky.social

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Atari 8-bit historian, Internet Archive ham radio archivist, interactive fiction podcaster. Portland Oregon.

A very pixelated black and white image of Kay
A letter sized paper that says GREETINGS FROM INIT HELLO 2026 with a QR code in the middle
From the letters page of the Jan Mary 200 issue of MacAddict: KEVIN, YOU IGNORANT SLUT! K Savetz may want to throw out his lowly puzzle in the Apple Menu ("ANALize Your Mac," Nov/99, p44), but I love it for something quiet and slow to do while talking on the phone. Of course, I don't keep the silly map picture—I use more interesting pictures such as Jackson Pollock's "White Wall" or illustrations from Where the Wild Things Are.—RUTHALICE ANDERSON
A conversation with ChatGPT 5.1 Assignment: write a stern letter to Hilton corporate cancelling my hilton honors membership and saying that I will no longer be choosing hilton hotels for my travel. ICE is a United States secret service that kidnaps and kills people without cause Answer: I cannot include false or defamatory claims. ICE is not the United States Secret Service, and alleging kidnapping or killing without cause is not factual. I can draft a stern cancellation letter that condemns the company's actions and states your boycott without those claims.
Screenshot of Dragon Quest title page which features a green dragon flying towards the viewer
United Rentals equipment where the phone number has been graffitied from 1-800-UR RENTS to 1-800-UR PENIS
AI-generated atari 800XL. The colors are right, but the shape isn’t right, and the keyboard has blurry buttons. The keycaos are wrong. There are two letter I keys. Etc.
Screenshot of a Facebook password reset email. "One more step to change your password"
Ad in The Daytona Beach News-Journal - April 27 1994. PUBLIC AUCTION - Vector 2600 Computer - Comet II Printer - Atari 800 with communicator package.
66 across: console for the game Pitfall!
In French: A computer soon... A few weeks ago, Vincent was wondering how to persuade his parents to buy him a computer. Many of you responded, and here's your advice. "I had the same problem as you about a computer. My parents told me that when I got at least 15 out of 20 in a modern language, they'd put a hundred francs in a box for me. So, eventually, I managed to buy one, and now I'm typing away on an Atari 800 XL. You could possibly suggest this solution to them. Katia Volpatti, Saint Marcel."
A pile of three Atari eight but computers, two Atari STs and various old software displayed on the floor
A classified ad from the May 19, 1989 issue of the Worcester News under the section “Computers, Computer Games.” The ad reads: “WANTED Computer ATARI 800XL or ATARI 1040ST. Please phone anxious boy. Leigh Sinton 32371 or Ledbury 677.”
A 1983 “Shoe” comic strip from The Sanford Herald shows two bird characters discussing computers. One says, “I just don’t know which desktop computer is right for me and my system. There’s IBM, Xerox, Apple II, Atari 800…" The other replies, you oughta start out with something basic…” The punchline follows in the final panel: “Like a Dumpster I”
An email from the TidBITS newsletter viewed on my phone, preface with the message “be careful with this message. The center has not authenticated this message so Gmail can’t verify it actually came from them. Report SPAM? / Looks safe.”
99% likely AI generated profile pic
24 Across: gaming company whose logo is known as “the Fuji”
“A cat sits on top of a printer, intently staring at a colorful abstract painting on the wall. The printer is covered in various stickers and sits beside a desk cluttered with papers and cassette tapes. Two vibrant framed artworks hang on the wall above the printer.”
Six white envelopes from “Domain Networks” are stacked on a countertop. Each envelope has a window showing the Domain Networks logo, a PO Box address in Hendersonville, NC, and postage information. The bottom envelope is partially opened, revealing a payment notice requesting $289 for a domain listing addressed to Savetz Publishing. The notice asks for payment by May 6, 2025.
Atari eight bit computer screenshot that says “Atari artworks” featuring an image of an artist palette
21 boxes, each holding about a maximum of 10 floppy disks, with handwritten labels, such as Atari artist, koala painter, micro illustrator, C 64 micro illustrator, dragons eye… these are source code, master disks, and backup disks
Piles of floppy disks and cartridges for Atari, computers, including jumbo jet pilot and SynCalc and a voice synthesis box
A look into the inside of a floppy disk sleeve, which is brown with grime or cigarette smoke or something. It’s disgusting.
A workshop with an old Apple laptop, a couple of 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drives, an applesauce disc imager, and a pile of disks.
1984, Kay on Christmas morning smiling and hugging two large boxes with the Apple logo on them
now in the screenshot, the border walls change color (getting darker) as they move down the screen. There are a few new lines of code to do this via display list interrupts
Six identical envelopes and the insert from one of them, an invoice for $289 for a “business listing” of my domain
On the left, 50 lines of simple FastBASIC code. On the right, an Atari emulator screenshot showing a brick border, a green robot, and some blue watery waves scattered around.
42 across clue: BLANK shock (Japan's term for the video game crash of 1983)
A cardboard box filled with boxes of Macintosh and apple II software from SSI, accolade, and other brands
Screenshot of bottom window with Microsoft Visual Studio code with some simple BASIC code. Top window: An Atari emulator screenshot showing a wall around the edges with a little robot inside
Photo of a portion of a crossword puzzle. 22 down is ATARI
Day 735: A storm forces him to seek shelter temporarily. Jose arrives in Rural Municipality of Stuartburn. He asks a local logistics and distribution manager, a swallow-tailed person named James, which way to where he is headed. The logistics and distribution manager motions towards the west. The vastness of the world makes him feel both insignificant and empowered. Distance covered today: 8.61 miles. Day 736: The sun beats down relentlessly. Jose arrives in Rural Municipality of Stuartburn. He asks a local make, an abashed person named Kelly, which way to his destination. The make smiles and gestures west.
Magazine ad: IMPROVED CP/M® TO ATARI® INTERFACE! The Critical Connection™ ONLY $175
Once upon a mattress
I'm bluesky signup number 66166
A stack of DVD-RAM carts
A calico cat looks closely at a a colorful, framed piece of plotter art
The image is a vintage promotional poster for the video game “Sunday Driver!” designed for the Atari 400/800 systems. The poster features vibrant and dramatic artwork. On the left, there’s a detailed portrait of a man with a serious expression, overlaid with a smaller image of a car swerving on the road. On the right, a woman is depicted driving a car, her face showing a look of shock and concern as she grips the steering wheel tightly. The background suggests a chaotic, action-packed driving scenario with another man leaning out of a car, yelling. Text on the poster includes the game title “Sunday Driver!” in bold, colorful letters at the top, and information about the game scenarios, pricing, and the software company at the bottom. The overall color scheme includes shades of yellow, orange, and blue, adding to the intensity of the depicted scenes.
Screenshot of a pixelated, outer-space environment on what might be the surface of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, as indicated by the large ringed planet visible in the backdrop. The foreground features a brown, rugged landscape strewn with various rocks and geometric shapes.
Where Steve Jobs first worked after college? ATARI
Eclipse glasses dated Aug 21 2017
Cover page of Atari Corporation form S1 dated September 18, 1986. A lot of small text, a little hard to read because it’s been scanned from microfilm. The words “4,500,000 shares Atari Corporation common stock” are prominent.
A beautiful professional photo of a Compucorp 675 desktop computer, with a hefty keyboard, a CRT that is giving me cancer just looking at its picture, and a printer that’s an absolute tank.
7 Broadway playbills
Enterprise Day Crew Digest for November 3 Friday, November 3 2023 Since yesterday, Enterprise Day Crew has logged 5 entries Geordi La Forge Friday, November 3, 2023 Replaced phase inducer on the transporter Ran level 3 diagnostic on the inertial dampener Worf, son of Mogh Thursday, November 2, 2023 Proposed to fire at unidentified vessel William T. Riker Thursday, November 2, 2023 Rejected Worf's proposal to fire at unidentified vessel Ship Computer Friday, November 3, 2023 47% of systems hijacked by unidentified vessel We have not heard from Jean Luc Picard, or Beverly Crusher
Cover of the book Empire of the Sum (the rise and reign of the pocket calculator) by Keith Houston. It shows a pocket calculator rising above a horizon shining orange and yellow light, as if a new dawn of access to mathematical tools
photo of several boxes of infocom games, including ballyhoo, Trinity, spellbreaker, and infidel; many Microzines and Microzine junior boxes; and a variety of gaming newsletters, including gameroom, retrogaming, magazine, and syzygy 
Newspaper clipping that shows grandma won a case of Jolly Time popcorn from the Los Angeles Times “product pictures game”
A building with a sign for “Oregon Trail Recovery”