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There are lots of vintage ad collections out there, and it’s always a fun to look through them. For your viewing pleasure, we have handpicked nine of the most fun, creative or just plain weird computer ads we have ever seen.
Below you will find classic ads from Apple, Texas Instruments, IBM, BASF, Honeywell, Maxell and more.
Two hot bytes
Apple getting witty about their name
A maybe even sexy 1200 bps modem
Back when Bill Cosby was all the rage
A dragon with a chip on its shoulder
The indestructible 3.5-inch floppy (most optimistic ad ever?)
In the future, everyone will use floppy disks
IBM PC, only $2,108 for the 64KB model
But computers were best in the 60s. Really. It tells fortunes!
We hope you enjoyed this little collection! 
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As Super Bowl 46 is approaching, fans will flock to the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and to TV sets around the world to follow the New York Giants battle it out with the New England Patriots.
Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30EST on Sunday, February 5, and we’re already monitoring Superbowl.com to see how the site will handle the event.
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Whether this helped spur on the booming sales in the US, we don’t know, but retail e-commerce spending in the US reached $37.2 billion for the November to December 2011 period. That was an increase of 15% from the same period in 2010.
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Beeboy
November 25th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Very, very nice.
I love retro design.
Kara
November 25th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Retro deliciousness!
Some of these are lovely. That dragon is fantastic!
Richard Anderson
November 25th, 2008 at 9:40 am
You gotta love the attempts to combine sex appeal and computer hardware. Reminds be a bit of the car industry and their booth babes (or maybe the games industry would be a better comparison in this case).
Bored
November 25th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I’m not sure what surprises me more — that we’ll all be using floppy disks, or that we’ll all be robots
Mattress
November 25th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I always loved the Apple one! I miss retro designs, Mentos had a great campaign too back in the late 80′s, early 90′s.
becca
November 25th, 2008 at 10:00 am
just brilliant
jamie dalgetty
November 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
i miss the non-x86 days…
Bukator
November 25th, 2008 at 11:50 am
They were right. Everyone DID use floppys…but not for long.
chethan
November 25th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
awesome !
Goofydg1
November 26th, 2008 at 9:38 am
These are great. I love the “in the future, everyone will use floppy disk” and the “computer brain for $4.99.”
Bill in Detroit
November 27th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Got any for the Osborne or the Kaypro?
Velox
November 30th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
FLOPPY HARAKIRI!!!
BullsEye
December 1st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Oh yeah, that Penril Modem still does it for me. RRRR!
Thanks for sharing!
Dreams
December 1st, 2008 at 8:57 pm
The BASF ad is awesome. I think it would still work if it ran in today’s PC Mag and people wouldn’t realize that no one uses floppies any more.
Programmable calculator
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 am
As a collector of vintage programmable calculators, I wander if these kind of adds where ever made for calculators/pocket computers? I would love to put some up on my site…
Warren
December 5th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
While growing up I actually had one of those Digi Comp I’s (the plastic unit at the end) in the 60s. The manual gave the programming setups for several functions, but no instructions or obvious clue as to how to program anything different. It was kinda fun but disappointing in that I knew there ought to be a way to actually do your own computer programming. It was a few years later before I was able to use and program a real computer.
bob
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
wow these ads are so cool, i too bad we are not using floppy disks now as it is the future back in the 70′s. these are really funny ads i think people in the 70′s had a good sense of humor.
Dillon
April 6th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed
jim w
July 14th, 2009 at 7:27 am
these are amazing! I especially like the sexy Penril Modem…
Stu
December 14th, 2009 at 2:44 am
Brings back a lot of memories. I actually had one of the Royal Advertising units as a boy. There was nothing electronic about it. You programmed it by pushing short plastic tubes on the bosses of the sliding plates, then slid the main plate (on the bottom) back and forth. Everything was done in binary, and the answer appeared on the 3 rotating drums on the far end as a series of 1′s and 0′s.
Tia
May 31st, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Love it, you rule.
International Parcel
June 3rd, 2010 at 3:21 am
wow check out thoese 3.5″ floppys! Times sure have changed.