Comments on: Nine awesome computer ads from the 70s and 80s

By: International Parcel

International Parcel — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:21:37 +0000

wow check out thoese 3.5″ floppys! Times sure have changed.

By: Tia

Tia — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:44:45 +0000

Love it, you rule.

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:44:37 +0000

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.

By: Retro delight: Gallery of early computers (1940s – 1960s) | Royal Pingdom

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:30:20 +0000

[...] The Honeywell 200 and its successors were introduced to compete with affordable commercial computers from IBM (specifically the IBM 1401). The native assembly language used to program the Honeywell computer was named Easycoder. Yes, at that time, assembly language was considered easy to code in. Honeywell ran an ad campaign over several years that they called the Liberator, using various very creative sculptures made from computer parts (one example available here). [...]

By: jim w

jim w — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:27:11 +0000

these are amazing! I especially like the sexy Penril Modem…

By: Dillon

Dillon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:36:59 +0000

Haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed

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Nine awesome computer ads from the 70s and 80s | iSimplyBlog.com — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:06:44 +0000

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By: bob

bob — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:36:05 +0000

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.

By: If they’d only known: tech ads from the 70’s and 80’s « TheNextWeb.com

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:09:21 +0000

[...] Advertisements like these two from Apple and BASF make me wonder how we will look at recent ads in about twenty years. “Haha, check out that vintage iPhone, with that ridiculous touch screen”. More at Royal Pingdom. [...]

By: Schnellschuss-Links vom 16.12.2008 | Werbeblogger - Weblog über Marketing, Werbung und PR » Blog Archiv » Schnellschuss-Links vom 16.12.2008

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:30:21 +0000

[...] aus den 70ern und 80ern Als Floppy Disks noch relevant [...]