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As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.

Here’re some photos of Ithaca College’s 106-VIC air studio. These were likely shot in 1985/86, but the studio was pretty much the same when “Floydian Slip” debuted in January ’89.

Notice there’s no CD player. All music at the station was played off LP, 45 single, or cartridge tape.

By the time “Floydian Slip” started up, we had a single CD player in the studio, on the rack to the left of the sound board. It was novel enough that we occasionally mentioned it on-air when something was played off CD.

106-VIC was (and is) one of two student-run radio stations at Ithaca College, in Ithaca, N.Y. When “Floydian Slip” was there, the station was heard campus-wide on the AM band, carried through the campus electrical wiring. But we focused more on getting people to listen at 105.9 FM on the community’s cable TV system.

Today the station goes by “VIC Radio” and seems to be focused on Internet streaming.

As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.

Here’s a snap of the first “Floydian Slip” website, 1996.

If memory serves, when the site launched, it was a single page at my “personal  home page,” which I called The Poor House. Shortly after we got the floydianslip.com domain and started building out the site.

This screengrab is probably shortly after the site moved to its own domain.

We’re 15 weeks away from “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000.

As we lead up to that milestone coming June 8, we’re digging into the “Floydian Slip” archives to share all sorts of relics from the show’s past.

Browse the growing collection