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Old computer ads + Atari !
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Atari memories anybody ??
look at the prices !
Atari memories anybody ??
look at the prices !
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Optionsjmritenour Member Posts: 565Awesome! 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."Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible; suddenly, you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi -
OptionsBokeh Member Posts: 1,636 ■■■■■■■□□□LOL love these. Tandy Professional for 8499 - Mouse AND monitor not included.
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Optionsbermovick Member Posts: 1,135 ■■■■□□□□□□Is 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:ComputesGazetteProgramPage.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.Latest Completed: CISSP
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OptionsUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,565 ModThose 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.
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Optionsmickeycoronado Member Posts: 71 ■■□□□□□□□□Wow, $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?"Are you suggesting that coconuts are migratory?!"
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OptionsWebmaster Admin Posts: 10,292 AdminAtari memories anybody ?? !I still have my Atari somewhere, good times
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OptionsRicka182 Member Posts: 3,359I 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..i remain, he who remains to be....
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OptionsAhriakin Member Posts: 1,799 ■■■■■■■■□□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 supportWe 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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OptionsRicka182 Member Posts: 3,359Xmas 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
That's awesome..
I remember my first 386SX. It came with a stout 8 megs of non-parity RAM. Even I knew it made a turtle look fast on tar paper.. I had to figure out how to improve it, and thus began my IT career...i remain, he who remains to be.... -
Optionsmillworx Member Posts: 290http://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?Currently Reading:
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OptionsJack2 Member Posts: 153I 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.WGU Courses Completed at WGU: CPW3, EWB2, WFV1, TEV1, TTV1, AKV1, TNV1| TSV1, LET1, ORC1, MGC1, TPV1, TWA1, CVV1, DHV1, DIV1, DJV1, TXP1, TYP1, CUV1, TXC1, TYC1, CJV1
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OptionsWebmaster Admin Posts: 10,292 AdminStumbled on some more Atari commercials today, these are videos though:
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OptionsUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,565 ModStumbled on some more Atari commercials today, these are videos though:
Random Terrain: A random repository of interests and information
these comercials are awesome