Stewart Cheifet, host of TV’s ‘Computer Chronicles,’ dies at 87

He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 cities at its peak.

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Stewart Cheifet, who enthusiastically charted the geeky formative years of personal computing as the host of a long-running show for PBS, “Computer Chronicles,” which launched in the Bay Area in 1983, died on Dec. 28 in Philadelphia. He was 87.

The cause was the flu, said his daughter, Dr. Stephanie Cheifet Koven.

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