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- Junkyarddawg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25Dugg for Elvira!
- LxRogue, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16DL speeds at a blazing 1 - 4 kb/s. A 700 mb movie could take 8 days.
Maybe in a few years people will measuring speeds in gb/s. To us that sounds insane and unnecessary, but nobody in the 80's pictured the internet today. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18"MultiSpeed is multi-talented. It's small. Light. And gives you the option of running at a clock speed of either 9.54 or 4.77 MHz," boasts this ad from NEC showing what a laptop of its day was like. It weighed in at 11.2 lb. with 640K of memory, dual 720K drives and five built-in program"
@msaleem, isn't that your current system? - consonance, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15I have an old Best Buy catalogue from '99.
You know what kind of PC you could get for $2449.99 plus tax?
512KB L2 pipeline burst cache
128MB SDRAM
13GB Ultra DMA HDD
Diamond Viper V550 nVidia TNT 16MB graphics card
JBL Pro speakers
56K speakers
Microsoft home Collection software bundle
17" Compaq MV 700 monitor (15.9" viewable)
Pentium III 500MHz CPU
6X DVD-ROM
Diamond Monster MX300 sound card
Digital Creativity Imaging Center
You know what the kicker is? Best Buy called this the 'specially configured Internet computer system.' "Access to Websites [sic] all over the planet is just a couple of clicks away."
I hate the 90s. - codyman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9um... my kids will be laughing at my specs before my grandchildren... hell, in 10 years from now I'll be laughing at my own specs and will be all reminiscent like "I remember when I got an AMD64 3400+...."
- meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I remember PC gamer running a competition for the ultimate gaming machine. It was a Pentium running at 90mhz with a new sound blaster card, a tnt video card, bubblejet printer and a 56k modem and it came with tie fighter and sam 'n' max.
I drooled. - Zoplax, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I love how Elvira keeps abreast of the latest technology...
- Botond, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Those 56K speakers were TIGHT.
- MonkeyFarts, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6It would be like it was back when these ads were made.
- tnatharik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6wonder how the world be if technology never moved forward.
- Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"But what if movies were 10 MB 120 x 80 px max 5 min clips?"
YouTube, anyone? - Szandor, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Take a drive through Mississippi.
- nogami, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I remember paying $650 for a 105mb harddrive (1989), and $800 for 8mb of RAM (1993).
I think our family paid about $2300 for our original Apple //e system (with the monitor, 2 drives, and a printer)
Oh yes, and the non-autoanswer, non-autodial, 110/300 baud modem for the Apple was about $320 I think, in around 1985. - DragonGirl724, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"Plain simple Engish. Any highschool graduate can read it."
Since most Americans read at an 8th grade reading level I'm not gonna invest $12,500 in this......typewriter?
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9024559&pageNumber=8 - Terr01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Just... what, two years ago the college department I worked in had a Selectric in the main office. (Of course, I never saw it used, but it occupied a niche right next to the network printer.)
Perhaps that says something about the Technical Communication department. - rwallen, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6I enjoyed these but being forced to click the images to see them full size is *****. I quit after the 3rd image. I understand you want more hits for your stupid ad revenue but I really hate all that unnecessary clicking you greedy bastards.
- johimself, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4would you rather do one thing super fast or lots of things fast enough?
- Tippis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Ads?
- gurm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Those modems were 1-4 kbit/sec, not 1-4 kbyte/sec.
A 700 mb movie could take 80 days. - DragonGirl724, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I'm so glad I wasn't around when computers were this expensive!
- ScornForSega, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Apparently e-mail spawned from the Ark of the Covenant.
I'm guessing the guy's face starts melting in the next frame. - Szandor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Ever picked one up? I'd say they weigh at least fifty pounds and made of some kind of bullet-proof alloy.
They were big, heavy, IBM typing monsters. - shotgunefx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The guy in the NEC laptop ad looks like Kevin Nealon
- eaasness, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3I think Cassandra Peterson is much hotter!
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/2007/CassandraP_Vespa_1117089_400.jpg - Kitsune818, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I used to be able to predict the connection speed by the sounds of the modem coming from the acoustic coupler, and later the speakers!
- tungsai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Remember the "Computer Shopper"? Man, what I wouldn't give for an issue of THAT old rag... or should I say, BRICK.
- xmrkkr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Those days our college Dell 386Sx with 20MB HDD was a killer machine.
- shadowspawn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Try running a porn BBS. We used to scam the HD's off of the labs... and filled up 4 of those 20's. But because only the lab people actually had the number... we had 8 lines. All were constantly on. The second we put in an extra line for admin use someone would find it. Bastards.
(I wonder what people would think of all that old porn) - knapper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I have an ad from last year from some obscure magazine geared for elderly people, it reads:
Compaq
AMD K6 475MHz
64 MB SDRAM
5 GB hard drive
24x CD Rom
56k modem
13.3 TFT active matrix screen
Windows OS
1.44 MB floppy drive
UNBELIEVABLE BUY!
Compare at: $750.95
Your Price: $299.99
I mean, I guess this is all elderly folks need, but c'mon... who's makin out on this deal here? Obviously nobody is still building these systems. So I bet their used or just thrown together. Who knows. - bedouin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+120 column display?
- saigumi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Yeesh, I remember when most of these ads were first run.
ph3ar my Timex Sinclair with the additional 256 byte ram cartridge and the cassette tape drive that would load Chess in 1 hour!
ph3ar my C64 with a 240 baud modem that would load text on the screen as fast as it downloads.
Actually, we are already starting to get a taste of what it is like for technology not to go forward. With all the laws, lawsuits, patents, etc... innovation is getting strangled bigtime. - sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Nostalgic for sure... but hilarious?
- Leadhyena, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2LOL -- "What the heck is electronic mail?"
If Fark hasn't photoshopped that dude yet, they soon will. - ipxodi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1buried for duplicate
- Kitsune818, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I had (And probably still do) a 16K expansion pack for the Sinclair (ZX-81).. 256 byte hardly seems worth it, wasn't the machine several K on it's own?
- jman8888, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1And intels could use that(Some do) But more is better for Marketing
- sexybobo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I saw those in some crap magazines one time. they are for the little old lady that knows if they buy a pc they can see pictures of their grandchildren. some go to bestbuy and the clerks show them the highest end model because they need to make quota and the granny get scared away. or she doesn't even know what bestbuy is and see a computer in a magazine for only $299 so she buys one. then it sits in the corner and doesn't get used. I know because my great aunt bought one like that.
Kinda an underhanded way to do business. - Kitsune818, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The best part, to me, is that there is no keyboard in sight, and an ashtray on his desk..
- dougmc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1My Apple II+ in 1980 or so cost something similar.
Specs? 1 MHz, 48 KB memory, 143 KB floppy drive, green-screen monitor ...
(And in retrospect, mom deserves mad props for getting it. Money was tight back then, but she knew how badly I wanted it, and she made it happen. That must have been very hard. Thanks mom! A lesser mom might have just gotten me a VIC-20!) - dougmc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Personally, I think Julie Strain would have been a better choice for the ad with Elvira.
(In case you're not familiar with her, she's a B-movie actress, former Penthouse Pet, and the `inspiration' for the
main character in Heavy Metal 2000.)
Alas, I think this ad was a little before her time. - shadowspawn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1ah, THOSE days of hacking software were the best. The first Pirate Bay on a BBS... I still have a few games for the ][e that has the original Pirate Bay logo. Trying to bang your way into a BBS over a hotwired PBX... woosh.
- larrywsm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Must be getting old. I've used and trained on some of the hardware and software in the adds.
- Hellmark, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, as a fan of redheads, I've always thought she was sexier when not in her Elvira persona.
- nephilonic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Gotta feel sorry for old people..
- Peabdog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Here's one more that I posted. It's a seventies ad for a Wang (snicker) with 16K hardwired BASIC language for just $7100.
http://dowhatnow.typepad.com/do_what_now/2007/06/nice-wang-buddy.html - msaleem, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Haha, take it easy Reg :)
- fragglet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I scanned some old magazines myself and uploaded them to flickr, some of them are quite amusing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7173831@N06/ - snakeman01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0very funny. They had a few at http://www.antiquesbuyersguide.com, but these are much funnier.
- Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Ah I remember back when computers were just about 4.0GHz, back in 2002.
Wait, they're still only just-below 4.0GHz. - schotty, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1And what is wrong with the VICs?
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