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KCBS-FM Engineers
Mike Edwards

From September 1972 until July 1977, I was one of the three engineers producing and maintaining the equipment at KCBS-FM in San Francisco. During that time, the station used the IGM 770 automation system to produce the on-the air programming.  A DEC PDP8E 12-bit computer was used to control the programming as well as to prepare the music and programming lists.  It used a 2 and 1/2 megabyte disk on a 14 inch platter to store the data.

I recently found these slides that were taken in 1975 of some old friends.

Bill Dodd preparing his program

Bill entering his musical selections in the terminal

Bill at the Centronics line printer used to print the lists used to prepare the voice tracks.

Bill Keffury working on the musical play lists

Bill working on his voice track preparation

Sam Van Zandt

John Twigg at the DEC PDP8E Computer

John loading software on a Model 33 ASR Teletpye

IGM Instacarts and Scully 270 playback only reel-to-reel machines used for voice tracks.

Angie at the front desk