Definitely owned and/or used more of those (including the teletype, and acoustic modem) than I care to remember. I vividly remember paying $400 for 16 MB of memory for my first PC.
I owned a few of those too. And $0.02 a byte sounds pretty darned expensive now. (By the way, what idiot photographed the model in the last ad holding the floppy that way? Great way to destroy all your data....)
I remember the Packard Bell ad well - it was part of discovery when I worked on Comapq v. Packard Bell way back when. Ah, the mid-90s, when a junior associate who knew what the internet was and how to use it could become very important on a litigation team...
I used to have a copy of this book, that I took around to the bosses at Comcast when we started the Pittsburgh call center for their internet service in '03, recommending that we incorporate it into our knowledgebase.
Re: #18. My mother worked for Burroughs for a good chunk of the 70s, and the group she worked in looked much like that picture, from what she said. Truth in advertising!
Ha -- when I was a summer associate, a senior partner asked me to find him all the cases from the past year on Noerr-Pennington. As would anyone else in 1998 who had a Westlaw password, I came back an hour later with a complete set. The man really and truly believed that I was a computer genius.
The temptation to put some Devo on over the headphones and fade into a longing nostalgic daze staring at the Commodore 64 adverts is probably more than I should share with the internet at large. If only they had included an Amiga ad...
I definitely owned some of those computers.
ReplyDeleteTwo thoughts:
ReplyDelete1. I wish the ads were dated; I can make educated guesses on the ones from about 1980 on but I'd be curious about the pre-Apple & Microsoft days.
2. Holy inappropriate sexy advertising, Batman!
3. Man, those older Apple ads make me appreciate the work that Chiat\Day has done for them in the last decade+ all the more.
Definitely owned and/or used more of those (including the teletype, and acoustic modem) than I care to remember. I vividly remember paying $400 for 16 MB of memory for my first PC.
ReplyDeleteJJF - re: Item 2, are you talking about ad #9?
ReplyDeleteI owned a few of those too. And $0.02 a byte sounds pretty darned expensive now. (By the way, what idiot photographed the model in the last ad holding the floppy that way? Great way to destroy all your data....)
ReplyDeleteI remember the Packard Bell ad well - it was part of discovery when I worked on Comapq v. Packard Bell way back when. Ah, the mid-90s, when a junior associate who knew what the internet was and how to use it could become very important on a litigation team...
Hah! I showed that one to Christina this morning and was actually sympathizing with Gates there. He looks horribly uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah - I bet that desk was murder.
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ReplyDeleteI used to have a copy of this book, that I took around to the bosses at Comcast when we started the Pittsburgh call center for their internet service in '03, recommending that we incorporate it into our knowledgebase.
I can't believe they didn't fire me.
Am I the only one here who subscribed to Compute! Magazine? (I doubt it.)
ReplyDeleteRe: #18. My mother worked for Burroughs for a good chunk of the 70s, and the group she worked in looked much like that picture, from what she said. Truth in advertising!
ReplyDeleteDom DeLuise?
ReplyDeleteHa -- when I was a summer associate, a senior partner asked me to find him all the cases from the past year on Noerr-Pennington. As would anyone else in 1998 who had a Westlaw password, I came back an hour later with a complete set. The man really and truly believed that I was a computer genius.
ReplyDeleteI used to love copying the code in the back!
ReplyDeleteThe temptation to put some Devo on over the headphones and fade into a longing nostalgic daze staring at the Commodore 64 adverts is probably more than I should share with the internet at large. If only they had included an Amiga ad...
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