We’ve Come A Long Way With Computers… Especially With Their Ads

December 4, 2008 by Dan in Random with 4 Comments

Remember your first 9,600bps modem? How about your Tandy? NeXT? We have come a long way in the personal computing revolution but I think the most evolution would have to be the advertising for the computer.

Browsing through Flickr I found a few vintage ads that just warmed my heart.

Have a favorite vintage ad? Post a link up in the comments.

More after the jump

http://www.nokiacreative.com James Burland

That is quite something… My dad would give me his old Personal Computer World mags, I can still remember many of the adverts even now 25 years on.

I wonder how long it will take until non-geeks realise just what a massive impact computing in going to have on every aspect of our lives 20 years from now.

Predicting computing 10 years from now is difficult but doable, but 20 years… not a chance!
Ron

Had trouble finding the ad I wanted, but I like it when they include the bargain you are getting.

This is interesting:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp2.blogger.com/_otfwl2zc6Qc/Rss8ATe87OI/AAAAAAAACEo/fKulnJVNML0/s200/IBM1970.jpg&imgrefurl=http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/08/ibm-mainframe-computer-in-1970-pictured.html&usg=__CSR_levWr-xJXc9AC2P41CCKv2U=&h=163&w=200&sz=12&hl=en&start=5&sig2=uBbWrWlCf0QTfnP6gRI99g&um=1&tbnid=dW1A5Kg_iXYVwM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=104&ei=FnY4ScvUDYy6sAPf27mlBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcomputer%2Bprices%2B1970%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

Sorry for long link.
http://www.zatznotfunny.com Dave Zatz

Where’s the Radio Shack TRS80? Man, I love the lunar lander game – though I wasn’t very good.
http://worldmediablogs.com/ AngepEffele

uneasysilence.com – great domain name for blog like this)))

We’ve Come A Long Way With Computers… Especially With Their Ads

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