About The Show

Co-Hosts Joe King and Hank Kee have been bringing you computer industry news, hardware and software reviews, guest interviews and news of User Group meetings for over 20 years. Since early 2001, they have been joined by Alfred Poor who brings with him over 20 years of experience with personal computers. Sometimes our webmaster, Michael Horowitz, joins us on the air.

A listener referred to the show as "Car Talk for computers."  

The  Personal Computer Show airs every Wednesday night from 8:00PM to 9:00PM EST on WBAI-FM 99.5 in New York City. It should be heard for a 90 mile radius around Manhattan (the station broadcasts at 50,000 watts). 

The show starts off with Hank doing the computer news of the week. Then we discuss the topic of the week until 8:30. The second half of the show starts with brief announcements of local user group meetings (about 5 minutes) followed by listener questions for the rest of the show. Call and ask us any computer related question at  (212) 209-2900.

The first Personal Computer Radio Show aired on WBAI on August 6, 1984.

In March 2007 we started experimenting with Gvisit to track the physical location of visitors to this web site.

Don't live within 90 miles of the Empire State Building (where the antenna for our 50,000 watt transmitter is)? You can still listen to us on the Internet. Live streaming of the show is available through the generosity of 2600 Magazine. See our Listen Live page.

Joe King

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Joe is happy to hear from you and will try to answer any computer related questions you may have. Send him an email at

Hank Kee

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Hank is happy to hear from you and will try to answer any computer related questions you may have. Send him an email at

Alfred Poor

He is a Senior Research Associate with Pacific Media Associates, a market research firm serving the display industry. He also is President of Working Papers, a technical writing service that creates white papers and other documents for technology companies. In addition, Alfred is a member of the Society for Information Display, an international organization of professionals in the display technology industry.

Alfred is a columnist with Computer Shopper magazine, where he has written Alfred Poor's Computer Cures since 1994. He wrote feature articles and reviews for PC Magazine from 1983 to 2005, was a contributing editor from 1989 to 2005, and was the magazine's first Lead Analyst for Business Displays. In addition, he has written for Family PC, PC Week, PC Sources, Windows Sources, and Computer Life magazines.

Alfred has written numerous computer books, including Troubleshooting Your PC published by Microsoft Press that he co-authored with M. David Stone. The book offers PC hardware troubleshooting for people not experienced in the area.

Since early 2001 Alfred has joined Joe and Hank as a co-host on The Personal Computer Show. In early 2003 he became the Reviews Editor for the show responsible for our reviews of products, books, web sites, services, etc. You can contact him at alfred.poor at pcradioshow.org for more information about the reviews on the show.

Alfred lives in bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and frequently broadcasts from the exclusive Sky Box, located high above downtown Perkasie.

Michael Horowitz

Stevie Debe

After returning to New York in 1980 after serving fours years as a Teletype repairman in the United States Air Force, Stevie Debe started his broadcasting career that same year with The National Broadcasting System. There he broadcasted a weekly half hour music program at FM station WWUU in Longbranch, New Jersey. Always interested in communications and technology Stevie started working full time for a major communication company as a technician in 1981 serving the Wall Street area.

Stevie stopped doing live radio at that time. Stevie returned to radio in 1998 when he came to WBAI as an engineer through Mr. Anthony Sloan, the Arts Department Director. Stevie was welcomed to The Personal Computer Show as their engineer.

As well as radio engineering Stevie currently installs and maintains a major communications network, computers, and printers for a major communication company in New York city. Stevie also volunteers as a technician for public access television on Long Island. Multi talented Stevie Debe also has a CD available at www.cdbaby.com/steviedebe and plays bass with local as well as internationally known bands. Stevie is also does some acting on television and film.