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- tomboy501, on 10/10/2007, -2/+185Obviously women washed dishes...and men played on the computer back in the 70s ;)
- espire, on 10/10/2007, -3/+122WHAT ARE THESE LOWER CASE LETTERS OF WHICH YOU SPEAK
I HAVE NO NEED FOR THEM - 10goto10, on 10/10/2007, -2/+73He kinda looks like he's thinking "This long key, it is a beautiful one... I caress you, long key, and maybe later on push you..."
Doesn't he? - benitojuarez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+62No, she's actually asking how she can use this new contraption to chop onions.
- spinchange, on 10/10/2007, -1/+57Look closer, she's actually slicing apples.
(Although this probably implies even worse gender-stereotyping - the man is 'computing' with his apple, while the women is preparing something to eat with hers!) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -16/+66And one year later, it was rendered hopelessly outdated, as Atari introduced a computer with graphics and sound co-processors, S-video output, and... lower-case letters.
- tomboy501, on 10/10/2007, -0/+35hmmm...you're right, Chris. it looks like little tomatoes or something. She's preparing a stew!
And after another look at that pic, I have decided that I am more disturbed by their expressions:
Her: "that's my man. He's so smart."
Him: "that's right, babe. Let me know when dinner is ready." - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37They're not married!!! I see no ring on his finger....
- MikeMigs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32Does it come with Oregon Trail? or Math Blaster?
- AmusedToDeath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24The guy looks like he just said "Honey, I keep pushing the buttons but all I get on screen is a bunch of jagged lines!" And he's probably thinking "Boy I wish I could watch porn on this thing instead of going to that theater downtown in my raincoat."
- gwhardyiv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Check out the turtleneck. Wonder if Jobs was working wardrobe at the photo shoot.
- Bleue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18I suppose that explains why the apple II was so incredibly unsuccessful, and the atari 800 was so wildly incredibly successful... Sarcasm BTW.
The really ironic thing is that apple was got bitten themselves years later when the mac, though clearly a superior machine with a superior OS, got completely outsold by IBM OC and their clones. Tech specs do not a hit make... - wackymacs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Apple did do ads showing the women using the computers too:
http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/Simplicity2.gif - digigeek, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18The man is also the same woman?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Actually, the Atari 800 was released 2 1/2 years after the Apple II, and 6 months after the Apple II+. It shipped with only 8k of RAM at a time when the Apple II+ shipped with 48k, and its disk drives were slow and clunky compared to the Apple II's. It failed in the marketplace due to its limited expandability and lack of standard RS-232 serial and parallel ports which prevented the use of standard printer, modem, and other peripherals.
- Stradenko, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Sinners.
- truNWA, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I like today better, my woman spends all day in the bed.
- ripstuntz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Ahhh the good ol days where women spent all day in the kitchen.
- aussieNickuss, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Almost as sexist as the board game that was on here a few weeks ago.
- eq2s, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Don't get too carried away with a creative description.
- KMye, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13is that the same woman?
- xDibblerx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11He's not "playing"! He's doing some serious graphing that's going to take his company to the TOP!
- FredoBerfil, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11That turtleneck would give John McCain a homophobic tantrum.
- sonaboy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11So easy, even a caveman wearing a turtleneck can use it.
- darny, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12If this was anything like real life he'd be looking @ ascii porn. Buried for inaccurate.
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Well, obviously her curiosity was peaked in the first ad and now he is explaining that ***** to her.
(god im all suppressed laughs and giggling at work people must think I am insane) - MV559er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9There's also a picture of an apple on the wall above the stand mixer.
- Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I thought Time Machine comes out in the next OS X version?
- indyGuy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Woo hoo! I learned to program in BASIC on one of those!
- Anrkist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8It's his credit rating, do you know yours? His is 933.
- astanhope, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I hope she's preparing a meal from the Weight Watchers 1974 Recipe Card collection:
http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html
I'm partial to "Fluffy Mackerel Pudding," myself. - StephenCIreland, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10the blowup variety dont count
- CiDaemon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Check it out--on the screen is printed "Dow Jones industrial Average"....and the number, although I can't read it well, has only three digits...? What trickery is this?!
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Kinda funny the duality that exists here... computers were originally meant to be programmed by the end-user, the duality is that people think that programmers overestimated the average intellect of the average end-user, when in fact they did not, it is 75% of the time only a matter of confidence and an actual desire to learn something that isnt 'really really easy' that holds people back in computing.
- BrokenCircle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Quote:
And one year later, it was rendered hopelessly outdated, as Atari introduced a computer with graphics and sound co-processors, S-video output, and... lower-case letters.
The Apple II or the Woman? - tomtucker378, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7He hit the boss key to hide the '70s porn from his wife.
- krebcycle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7And the lack of support by software developers; there was a huge wellspring of people building for Apple II (and II+ and IIe, and later the Commodore series).
- chrsgo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8What I find interesting is that Steve Jobs *still* dresses like that guy did 30 years ago. Man, even Apple's adds are wwaaaaaaayyy ahead of their time.
- MrTeQ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Everyone knows fake charts and graphs == 'Boss Key'
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+710 PRINT "DUGG"
20 GOTO 10 - gerran, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The design of those KitchenAid mixers haven't changed in 30 years. Now that's impressive.
- whisperedlie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6"'Morning, dear! What are you doing?"
"Oh, not much. Eating breakfast, drinking some coffee... getting a little work done ON MY GIGANTIC COMPUTER before I pop into work..." - Mudcrutch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Nice curtains.
- BertFegg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7A generation of computer widows is born...
- orb_nsc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Do you think she'd really marry some computer nerd?? She's just there for the free strawberries.
- a1532b, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Maybe because this is a technology website and people here like to see just how far we've come in 30 years?
- MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12He is probably thinking, "When is Kevin Rose going to release digg?"
- MrDisco, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6This ad reminds me of the immortal words of Cartman:
"You get your bitch ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie!"
Anyone notice the apple poster on the cupboard? Subliminal advertising at its best. - StephenCIreland, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7LOLZ, so lookin for your new place to stay yet ?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Do you think she put carrots and potatoes in? I really hope so.
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