Floppy Days 168 - Interview with Harry Garland, Cromemco, Part 1

Floppy Days 168 - Interview with Harry Garland, Cromemco - Part 1

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Hello, and welcome to episode 168 of the Floppy Days Podcast, for October, 2026.  My name is Randy Kindig and I'm the host of this homage to the home computer stars of yesteryear.

This month is an interview-only show, coming to you with a gentleman who, through the company he cofounded, helped define personal computers in the mid-70's and beyond, when they were just becoming a thing and the Altair 8800 was at its heyday.

That gentleman is computer pioneer Harry Garland and the company was Cromemco.

Cromemco was a pioneer American microcomputer company founded in 1974 by Stanford University graduate students Harry Garland and Roger Melen.  Cromemco pioneered many incredible technological advances:

Cyclops: Released in 1975, it was the first commercially marketed all-digital microcomputer camera.