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A History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the early-days dept.

Tiny Tuba writes "PC World's Harry McCracken pulls together a compendium of vintage PC commercials posted on YouTube. There are commercials from the 1980s right up to the present. If you are looking for a laugh, you will have fun with the Atari 400, Commodore 64 and more." Worth it for the Shattner Vic-20 commercial alone, but the others are well-picked too. Naturally, the Apple 1984 commercial is included.

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  1. Re:What no Prime Computer? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's a transcript.

    Better than nothing. :)

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  2. Re:What no Prime Computer? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Found some WAV files of the commericals. Getting closer. :)

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  3. Re:He missed... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmmm... wrong link on the blog. It looks like the copy/paste failed and I ended up with a second link to YouTube. Oops. Here's the right link:

    http://akaimbatman.intelligentblogger.com/wordpres s/archives/42

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  4. Commercial: Commodore Amiga 500 Introduction Video by antdude · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cool video: A 15 minutes YouTube video showing off the Amiga 500, also known as the A500. It was the first "low-end" Commodore Amiga 16/32-bit multimedia home/personal computer. It was announced at the winter Consumer Electronics Show in January 1987, at the same time as the high-end A2000, and competed directly against the Atari 520ST.

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  5. Windows 95 "Start Me Up" by ModernGeek · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mentioned, but not listed, the Windows 95 Start Me Up Launch Video

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  6. Re: Warning! by Oscar_Wilde · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had to reload the page several times because the flash animations stopped producing sound for some reason. I wonder if it's just coincidence that something similar happened to you.

  7. Doctor Who / Romana, by any other name... by vain+gloria · · Score: 2, Informative
    There was a few comericals for Prime Computer with Dr. Who. I wish I could find a link for them.
    Those were some serious adds.

    Halfway down the page, here. Now don't say I never give you anything!
  8. One of the greatest ads of all time by maggard · · Score: 2, Informative
    Naturally, the Apple 1984 commercial is included.
    naturally, i had no idea there was such a thing as a computer commercial snob.

    The Apple "1984" commercial is considered to be one of the greatest advertisements of all time, in any product category. Indeed it is standard curriculum in marketing classes at colleges & universities around the world.

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    I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.