[grc] article about KALX

[Brian Shiratsuki]

Berkeley sounds: The early days of KALX

10/31/2017, by Nate Seltenrich

``The radio station known as KALX began life in 1962 in the basement
of Unit 2, a residence hall on Dwight Way. It had at its disposal a
collection of records (mostly classical), a couple mics, a cheap
recorder and the semblance of a mixing board built into an old cigar
box...''

<http://engineering.berkeley.edu/2017/10/berkeley-sounds-early-days-kalx>

lee felsenstein, pictured but not mentioned in the article, is still
around. he was also a free speech activist, personal computing
pioneer, and co-creator of berkeley community memory:

``Community Memory (CM) was the first public computerized bulletin
board system. Established in 1973 in Berkeley, California, it used an
SDS 940 timesharing system in San Francisco connected via a 110 baud
link to a teleprinter at a record store in Berkeley to let users enter
and retrieve messages. Individuals could place messages in the
computer and then look through the memory for a specific notice.

While initially conceived as an information and resource sharing
network linking a variety of counter-cultural economic, educational,
and social organizations with each other and the public, Community
Memory was soon generalized to be an information flea market, by
providing unmediated, two-way access to message databases through
public computer terminals. Once the system became available, the users
demonstrated that it was a general communications medium that could be
used for art, literature, journalism, commerce, and social
chatter...''

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory>