Some great computer ads from the Olden Days

[lazarus]

http://www.informationtechnologyschools.org/blog/2010/30-old-pc-ads-that-will-blow-your-processor/

[cyberswede]

1. Those are great!!

Here's my first computer - dual floppy drive and all...

[lazarus]

3. wow

it had upper and lower case. An amazing machine.

[EOTE]

2. 10 megs?!?!?!?

Do you know how much CGA porn that could hold? I'll never need to upgrade my storage again!

[pokerfan]

5. You call that a hard drive?

This is a hard drive:

[EOTE]

6. Wowza!

With something like that, I might be able to upgrade my porn to EGA.

[pokerfan]

4. I remember those old Asimov Radio Shack ads

[Old Troop]

7. Hey! That's my computer.

[JCMach1]

8. From My First Computer- Sinclair ZX81

[csziggy]

12. My Mom still has one of those in the closet - unopened

She never got the time to learn to use it, so it got stored.

[Archae]

9. 30 years from now...

People our age now are going to be laughing at our "Big clunky towers and laptops instead of HUD's."

[Dr Morbius]

10. Commodore 128. That's 128K of memory, you know.

Note the disk drive can "burst" 3000 characters per second. Ooh.

[justbarely]

11. 1984 redux

Perhaps not entirely in keeping with the spirit of the thread, but it was the first thing that flashed through my mind. How the heck can the Macintosh/1984 ad be 26+ years old?

[Sebastian Doyle]

13. My favorite 80's computer ad

[rucky]

14. Kick ass! There's an iPhone on one...

[SunnySong]

15. Boo no George Plimpton....