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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:Shattner? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    What's a Shattner? Is that related to a Shatner? These are the questions I ask myself when reading a Slashdot write-up. Why do I still come here?

  2. Warning! by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I kid you not, right after watching the Ballmer commercial, the sound went out on my computer.
    That mofo has some powerful anti-mojo.

    (Though I am from Nebraska, so maybe that's why.)

    Stupid monkeyboy...

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