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  • orlandu63, on 12/12/2008, -1/+52Dugg for having them all on one page.
  • Exekutor, on 12/12/2008, -1/+30Buried for one page, I was looking for a 101 page slideshow.
  • Vosem, on 12/12/2008, -0/+23I miss my Commodore 64.
  • chanop, on 12/12/2008, -0/+11Timex, the original OLPC
  • jscnet, on 12/12/2008, -1/+1210 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
    20 GOTO 10

    RUN

    HELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLDHELLO WORLD

    BREAK
  • edwartica, on 12/12/2008, -3/+12You think your Commodore 64 is really neato? What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?
  • belfastbiker, on 12/12/2008, -1/+7C64 had some stunning games!
  • plainOldFool, on 12/12/2008, -3/+9Dood, you're whiter than sour cream.
  • calebian, on 12/12/2008, -0/+5by the year 2000 people may catch up to the way we do things...
  • reddoggie, on 12/12/2008, -0/+5Higher-res versions so we could read the ads would have been even better.
  • bigpun, on 12/12/2008, -0/+4Dugg for the Vic 20! Some great nostalgia, nice to see some geeky stuff on Digg again
  • acklefutz, on 12/13/2008, -0/+4Load "*",8,1
  • whitenerdy92, on 12/12/2008, -0/+4no they don't.
  • ertw1, on 12/12/2008, -1/+4jealous?
  • whitenerdy92, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3none of those computers could even load that page.
  • yayster, on 12/12/2008, -1/+4open 15,8,15
    print #15, "n0:somename.id"
    close 15

    (if I remember correctly, that formats a disk)
  • LeadStripes, on 12/12/2008, -1/+4"You like your Macintosh better than me, don't you Dave?"
  • techguru2006, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3Dugg for all those Atari ads. Classic stuff.
  • Lith25, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3the frogger ad is a tad distubing.
  • davidkshepherd, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3OK, now I officially am OLD. When I started with DoD in 1988, they were still on these beasts... http://tinyurl.com/5rtjgf
  • thomasdt12, on 12/13/2008, -0/+3Agnes-Denise-Paula!!!
  • Myztry, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3Ode to diversity and choice. Brilliant period to have grown up in!
    Even though the ads only cover about a 10 year period (1975 Altair to 1985 Amiga) they show computing going from 8bit headless systems all the way to 32bit multitasking GUI systems. An avalanche of innovation.
    Compare that to the last 20 years. Storage (ram, drives, etc) have got bigger. Processors (GPU, CPU, etc) has got faster.
    But that's about it. Severely disappointing. Shame on you Bill!

  • commodore64, on 12/12/2008, -1/+4I'm still here Vosem. I never left you.
  • Myztry, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3^ Seriously. While there are a lot more IBM PC compatibles sold these days, no single model from any OEM can match all the Commodore 64's ever made.
    PC models don't tend to live long, and are often obsolete within a year.
    Over the 10 years the Commodore 64 sold over 17million units
  • antdude, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2For me, TI 99/4A, Atari 2600, and Apple //c. :)
  • FelixdaaHack, on 12/13/2008, -0/+2I live 5 miles from the library of congress
  • NathanCH, on 12/12/2008, -3/+5"Why every kid should have an Apple after school"

    Heh, clever.
  • redux2redux, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2Love those Honeywell 'creatures' made out of parts
  • acklefutz, on 12/13/2008, -0/+2damn beat to it
  • SoopaflySAM, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2Hooray for Web 2.0
  • speedk0re, on 12/12/2008, -1/+3load "*",8,1
  • ReinMasamuri, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2"There's more software available for Apples than for any other system you can buy."
    lol wow how the times have changed.
  • adam1378, on 12/13/2008, -0/+2Remind people of the stashed Playboy mags...
  • yayster, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2Mine did! :-D
  • jrm125, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2Would've been better if they were high resolution so we could actually...ya know...read them?
  • Alfonrock, on 12/12/2008, -3/+5dugg for "no tar + no nicotine = no taste"!!
  • jetblackz4, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2Compuserve ad was amazingly right on with the electronic mall in 2000.
  • revslaughter, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2I could have sworn that that was a cracker company
  • jimminy, on 12/13/2008, -0/+2Amiga. Oh how I miss you.
  • Testiculese, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2Holy *****, reading the Atari ads, with the games list brought back a super flood of memories from back then!

    Yars Revenge!
    Night Rider
    Canyon Bomber
    Human Cannonball
    Sky Diver
    Defender
    Beserk

    I'm drowning in nostalgia...know what I have an atari emulator and an assload of games, I really need to break them out of storage and turn 8yo again.


    (In other news, the prices of the computers are cracking me up...until I remember paying $2000 for an 8088...rofl)
  • ddhillon, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2you mean the fruit apple?
  • Wr3cktangle, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1my guess is adblock. For me, Firefox is just how you describe, but IE works fine. Firebug shows that the html with the image references is being properly retrieved.
  • thomasdt12, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1SYS 64738

  • FelixdaaHack, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1jealous of unoriginality, hardly
  • marciot, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1The fifth one from the bottom, the Sharp, is where I first learned to program BASIC as a kid. My dad still has it and it still works after all these years (although the pen plotter we no longer have).
  • marx2k, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1Step 0.5. Find library with a bunch of 80's Byte magazines
  • waldo686, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1maybe its just my computer but when i click the website, no pics show up, just coments, i tried refreshing am i doing it wrong?
  • MScrip, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1I'm looking for an early 90's copy of Computer Shopper... the ones that were 700 pages!
  • michaeldpotter, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1Yes! The Sinclair was my first computer. I remember typing on it. As you go further down the screen it took longer and longer to redraw all the characters. Ahhhh memories...
  • etx313, on 12/13/2008, -0/+1Dugg for Burroughs.
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