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2spare.com — 300 Mbytes for under $20,000 oh those were the days!

Who dugg this? Made popular Jan 17, 2008

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  • Error601, on 01/17/2008, -1/+71Funny...when I saw that my first thought was, "how many youngins won't know that's Isaac Asimov."
  • Buelldozer, on 01/17/2008, -3/+65That "Radio Shack salesman" is ***ISAAC ASMIOV*** you moron!
  • badwithcomputer, on 01/17/2008, -3/+60i will buy any light beer or consumer electronics that has elvira endorsing it.
  • inactive, on 01/17/2008, -1/+49A 16-bit microprocessor will ***** get you laid. Chicks dig it!
  • tommycruiser, on 01/17/2008, -4/+50The guy with the mutton chops is world-famous sci-fi author Isaac Asimov.
  • ibanezdtx120, on 01/17/2008, -0/+43Dude...That's the great Isaac Asimov
  • TheAngryMob, on 01/17/2008, -1/+41Wow, just like the caption says! You must have like ESPN or something.
  • Shambla, on 01/17/2008, -0/+39Electronic....mail?
  • minnymoo, on 01/17/2008, -1/+38"Two Bytes Are Better Than One"
    -damn, that's the perfect porno ^_^
  • gottoflyhigh, on 01/17/2008, -1/+36Wow, we have come so far. Two thirds down the page is a "fart button"
  • Neiby, on 01/17/2008, -1/+35Holy cow.... I hate to use these words, but "epic fail" certainly fits here.
  • midoritsuru, on 01/17/2008, -0/+32Maybe twenty years from now we'll be looking at old Vista ads saying, "how many youngins won't know that's Bill Gates?" lol
  • searcade, on 01/17/2008, -4/+34"The new 16K RAM card that turns your computer into a working giant"
  • minnymoo, on 01/17/2008, -0/+24Asimov*
  • edwartica, on 01/17/2008, -0/+18Holy crap, is that computer hooked up to a tv? I totally forgot we used to do that!
  • borez, on 01/17/2008, -1/+19Dugg for Bill Gates being a style icon.
  • WickedOwl, on 01/17/2008, -0/+17"RadioShack: Issac Assimov featuring a color computer (1982)"

    Come on, man. Don't make that kind of spelling error. Not for that guy.
  • unicronband, on 01/17/2008, -2/+17 It's actually Isaac Assimov the porn star, not Isaac Asimov the author. Common mistake though.
  • BabyWookie, on 01/17/2008, -0/+14Two girls, one chip.
  • spect3r, on 01/17/2008, -1/+14Yeah, it's this new thing being coined "e-mail". I just got mine yesterday. Comes packaged with this neat "COMPUSERV" software that allows me to post on these fangled "bulletin boards" and look up my stock prices on this intranet that functions through, get this, MY PHONE LINE!!! It's E-MAZING.
  • TomFrost, on 01/17/2008, -1/+14Did you see the design of that ad? Cut the serifs off the font, and holy crap, that's a modern Apple ad look. Way to be, 1987 Microsoft.
  • Cupantae, on 01/17/2008, -3/+16Yeah, but we will realise that no one ever thought Vista was advanced technology
  • wespadfield, on 01/17/2008, -0/+12(shakes head)...kids these days...
  • ParanoidDizzy, on 01/17/2008, -0/+12Dugg for the ever-so-random Elvira/LBMS tie-in. What the hell where they thinking?
  • Thayin, on 01/17/2008, -0/+12What kind of a slip is that? You accidentally typed "less" instead of "sell?" That's just weird.
  • Fracture98, on 01/17/2008, -0/+12They were Peltier Cooling Fins. His brain was over-clocked.
  • gak001, on 01/17/2008, -0/+12I guess he was like... "Hmm, the coffers seem to be a little low. Shall I write another amazing, award-winning series? Man, I don't really feel like it - how about I just smile for a picture?"
  • whatthefu, on 01/17/2008, -0/+11How can you not recognize Asimov's mutton chops?
  • joeconway, on 01/17/2008, -3/+13NO I DO NOT WANT TO PRESS THE FART BUTTON.
  • Cupantae, on 01/17/2008, -0/+10At the time, there must have been loads of people convinced that development will stop soon. Surely we can't get any better than 300,000,000 bytes!
  • Julirocks, on 01/17/2008, -7/+15Bill Gates is so sexy.
  • diggmc, on 01/17/2008, -0/+8Dug for Isaac Asimov pimping Radio Shack's CoCo 1, Model III and the Model II (with it's 8" drives). God I remember seeing those ad's in Byte magazine.
  • Dubbsacc, on 01/17/2008, -0/+8We stopped?

    Mine is hooked up to a TV...
  • orangetiki, on 01/17/2008, -0/+8Dugg for the Tandy reference. that was my first computer. No hard drive, 19.2 modem (external), 5.1/4 disk standard 3.5 disk external, How I miss the days of keeping a rolodex with phone numbers to dial BBS-es to find out about when and where people are playing paintball. Paintball was real paintball back in the day also. None of that inflatable "speedball" junk.
  • Fracture98, on 01/17/2008, -0/+7Those were the days. A 45 minute wait to see "LOAD ERROR".
  • Elranzer, on 01/17/2008, -0/+7(Double) dugg for Elvira. I doubt she understood anything she "said" in that ad.
  • way2muchsense, on 01/17/2008, -0/+7Two chicks at the same time. Dude.
  • edzilla, on 01/17/2008, -3/+10Actually, comparing Asimov to Gates is a major blasphemy...
  • mancat, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6It's a pleasure to see the Cromemco 16K memory board advertisement. I have several of these boards, still in their factory shipping boxes. I have a fully working Cromemco System 2 running Cromemco's ancient Unix variant "Cromix." It's so old that most of the Unix command names had to be changed in order to avoid AT&T prosecution. It has a whopping 384KB of memory, no hard drive, no network interface, and interactive through a greenscreen Zenith Z-29 terminal.

    The system - all software, all manuals, everything - was "found" in my grandma's basement a couple years ago. She was going to have it thrown out. Apparently one of my long-deceased uncles was a software developer at Boeing in the late '70s and early '80s and was involved in some military contracts. Lots of these things ended up being bolted into racks on board Navy ships and even found their way onto B-52s.
  • TheWorm, on 01/17/2008, -3/+9And someday people will scoff at 3000 for a 64gb flash based Macbook Air....wait, they already do.
  • Urusai, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6He's plugging my first computer there. Those were the days, 16k RAM and BASIC, saving programs to a tape deck.
  • Buelldozer, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5I remember when I got the 16K RAM expander for my Vic-20. Good stuff!
  • edwartica, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5well, yeah...good point. :)
  • burgerpocket, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5if it's as frightening as the ad makes it out to be, i don't want it.
  • edwartica, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5Elvira was advertising anything and everything in those days. I think I once saw an ad where she advertised a radiation suit!
  • 10lbhammer, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5um, it says so right in the caption...
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