The advertisement above (at least the top half of it) is from a 1972 issue of Radical Software. Jason Daniels posted a link there on the thesis wiki. He thought there might be some good links here for investigating the early days of PEG access TV. He could not have been more correct.

For the purposes of this project, I found the bottom half of the ad (which is available for download) to be most relevant in understanding how the early days of access might be relevant to today’s transition. Here’s a (blown up) version of the bottom half of the ad:

And 7) (most importantly) says “To explore possibilities of integrating various media in communications to create flexible, broad-based public access information system.” Bingo!

I look forward to spending a lot more time exploring the resources available at Radical Software.

Thanks, Jason.