Fun Friday
After viewing some of the old-school tech commercials I dug-up below, you’ll probably be as thankful as I am at how far we’ve come!
Atari
Have you played Atari today?
Windows Commercial
And yes, from what I can tell, it’s real.
Apple IIc Commercial
Note: You can even get a mouse with it!
NES Commercial
Will you be the first to raise the incredibly accurate zapper?
Commodore 64
Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you.
Radio Shack from the 80’s
The Color Computer 3!
Don’t Copy That Floppy
Maybe the RIAA will come out with something like this?
IBM (We’re with you all the way)
Hmm… apparently elephants demonstrated their point best?
Magnavox Computer Commercial
Gotta love that “undo” button!
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the windows one cannot be true, as Ballmer would not be bald 20 years ago. Also, the windows version shown is 3.11 and that was not the first version of windows sold to the public commercially, finally the pricing and specs he lists make this a very fake commercial. It is a good one, but a fake.
I am not sure what exactly this says about me but - I remember seeing the Atari commercial on TV and BEGGING mom to get Yar’s Revenge - hahaha.
I love how they always tried to make their products look more capable than they really were. My Commodore 128 manual had a picture of a student carrying his 128 to class–no cables, drives, or TV.
fantastic..!! seeing those old ad’s really brings it home, computers and their software has come along way in the last 25 years…
no not a fake, that is definitly windows 1.0, i still have an original set of windows 1.0 floppy diskettes (5x 5 1/2″ ..!) and the 6mhz (!!!) ibm-at286 the software run on is nailed to the wall of my office..!
and by the way, men can, and do, get bald in their 20’s and 30’s and not just in their 50’s, so why should steve balmer be an exception…
Man! I played everyone of those games on my NES. I had the first release NES with Robbie the Robot. It did not go over well, so the second release of the NES did not include it.
I lost all my game consoles in the divorce. I had s 2600 with about 70 games, Sega genesis, SNES, N64.
The whole bitch of this is that the ex never did anything with them. They were supposedly never un-boxed. However, I bet she sold them all. She just did not want me to have them.
Fortunately you can get emulators for the games now. Heck, all Nintendo games every made (I think it is like 980 including foreign ones) can fit on one CD. Oh, but I don’t know that personally…I just heard it from a friend.
The graphics are pretty good on Yar’s Revenge, actually.
God those are great. I love really old ads. Maybe I can find a torrent of really old ad video files, then put ‘em on my Zune
I guess you didn’t learn anything from “Don’t copy that floppy!”
Me neither. Time to look for some good pirated old ads in torrents
Love these old commercials. I remember my first computer.. it was an Apple II+ with dual 5-1/4 drives and the amber/black monitor. I think we paid just under $2400.00 for it. looking back I think those older computers were faster than these today, seems like you didn’t have to wait as long for stuff to load…. ahh… the good ole days.. lol