Although Stewart Cheifet is long remembered as the host and executive producer of Computer Chronicles, he was actually not the first person to host the program. Before Chronicles went national on PBS in 1983, there was a locally aired live version on KCSM-TV hosted by Jim Warren, which started airing in September 1981. Unfortunately, there were apparently no recordings kept of any of the Warren-hosted episodes.

James Clarke Warren, Jr. (1936 - 2021)

Jim Warren passed away on the morning of November 24, 2021, at the age of 85. While he may be considered a footnote in the history of Computer Chronicles, his impact on the personal computing industry as a whole was far more significant. Born in July 1936, Warren began his career as a high school math teacher in the 1950s before earning his first of many college degrees. Indeed, Warren would eventually complete three master’s degrees–including one in computer engineering from Stanford–and stopped just short of earning a doctorate in that discipline.