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01-17-2011 03:14 PM #1
Old computer ads + Atari !
"After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being — and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth." - Carl Sagan
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01-17-2011 03:22 PM #2Awesome! Vintage Computing has some good old school magazine ad scans as well.
There are times I really do pine for the good old days, when just getting a word processing program to run could be an adventure in itself. Ahhhh, memories.DONE with WGU as of 11/20/2012!
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01-17-2011 06:10 PM #3LOL love these. Tandy Professional for 8499 - Mouse AND monitor not included.
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01-17-2011 06:39 PM #4Is it sad that I remember some of these ads from my old magazines?
Dang... what was that magazine called? Was for the C64, and had page after page of hex to type in to run programs. I'm going to have to look it up now or it'll bug me all day.
[edit] I think it was possibly the Compute! Gazette. This page looks hauntingly familiar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co...rogramPage.jpg
The fun part was spending like 4 hours typing page after page of that in, then try to avoid turning the thing off since there was no way to save it at the time.Last edited by bermovick; 01-17-2011 at 06:53 PM.
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01-17-2011 07:29 PM #5Those were fun times, I was a kid but I remember that in my mind the computer was this fancy thing with black or green screen that can do very impressive things, and we all got this idea from movies I guess.
I still have my Atari somewhere, good times
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01-19-2011 01:20 AM #6Wow, $3500 for a 10 Megabyte hard disk? I thought that must have been 3500 yen at first. Couldn't you almost buy a car for that much back then?
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01-19-2011 01:53 AM #7Many, like the squeaky sound of a game loading from tape for example, or worse, failing to load. This was my first computer (technically my brother's but he got bored with it)
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Atari 800XL. I used to sneak out of bed and have late night coding sessions (typing game code from a book).
Yeah great times, there was still something magical about computers back then. I think/hope mine is somewhere in the attic at my parents.I still have my Atari somewhere, good times
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01-20-2011 12:39 PM #8I love those old ads.. some are so cheesy. I was going to post a couple of my favorites, one from 1954....but the image upload is failing at my work..
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01-20-2011 01:48 PM #9Xmas morning, dad and older brother won't let 11 yr old me near the new C64 while they're trying to get it to load a game, so I sit back and actually read the manual and get it working when they step away. I always look back on that as my first bit of tech support
We responded to the Year 2000 issue with "Y2K" solutions...isn't this the kind of thinking that got us into trouble in the first place?
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01-20-2011 02:22 PM #10That's awesome.. Originally Posted by Ahriakin Xmas morning, dad and older brother won't let 11 yr old me near the new C64 while they're trying to get it to load a game, so I sit back and actually read the manual and get it working when they step away. I always look back on that as my first bit of tech support
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01-20-2011 06:05 PM #11http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/vfh1fkzc7tih0a.jpg
This one is kind of new, but I find it to be rather racist on Intel's part. Who approved that?
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01-20-2011 06:19 PM #12 I have an original atari Arcade system in my office at home. Not the home system but the full yellow cabinet. Still works fine! not very exciting compare to games today. But in the day it could be very addicting.
I also have an original copy of Byte magazine announcing the IBM PC.
Kinda cool to read the adds in in the magazine.
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01-21-2011 02:22 AM #13Stumbled on some more Atari commercials today, these are videos though:
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01-21-2011 04:42 AM #14 Originally Posted by Webmaster
these comercials are awesome "After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being — and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth." - Carl Sagan
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