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- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Worth it for the Windows 386 rap alone.
W-w-w-Windows!
Stand back William, stand b-b-b-back! Windows 386 is on the attack! - duxxyuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Superb post... Appropriately dugg.
- falstaff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"This extremely rare commercial for the Vic-20 emplores you not to waste your money on a game machine from Atari or Intellivision but instead "invest" in the "wonder computer of the 1980s.""
That must be why we had a Commodore instead of an Atari, and I'm still primarily a PC gamer to this day.
"Dude, you don't have a 360?"
"Nope, and it's Captain Kirk's fault." - lemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Excellent...I have lived through Sinclair ZX81 > Sinclair Spectrum > TI-99/4a > Commodre 64 and on and on and on (God I feel old). But it has been a lot of fun. I remember arguing with my friends about which computer was better becuse of the number of colors (TI had 16 colors!) or because of the resolution...256 x 192 pixel screen was considered high-resolution graphics...try viewing a 256 x 192 image on your screen and you will see what I mean...ahh...the good ol' days....
- RedZeppelin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ah, the venerable Atari 400! The 800 was my first computer. Those were good times.
>READY - schneideren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nicely!... Brings back memories!....
- FRAGaLOT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bah this sucks. No mention of Alan Alda (Hawkeye from M*A*S*H) when he did TV commercials for Atari 8-bit computers back in the mid 80s.
Also Commodores didn't have the hardware, they just had the market share. Commies were the SLOWEST machines that used the 6502. Those damn things took a half hour to load a game from a floppy disk, that only held 90k. Then again the Apple // series weren't much faster.. but they were faster than Commobores.
The Atari 8-bit computers used multiple microprocessors (instead of having the 6502 doing ALL the work) ran circles around these computers. The developers of the Atari 8-bit computers went on to develop the Commodore Amiga, which was had ground breaking visual effects that introduced the video toaster, was used in sci-fi TV shows (Babylon 5) and many movies. - g026r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Ballmer one isn't a real commercial, but rather an in-house thing produced as a sort of joke for the completion of Windows 1.0.
There's info on it somewhere around the 'Net. - tirofiban, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah....the Atari 400/800 system. The best 8-bit computer, running at 1.79Mhz that I ever met!
- zachlutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The one near the bottom with the woman singing about Windows is particularly awful. So much so that I was laughing my ass off at the end. I'm sure she was on her way to wrap up on some leveraged buyouts...either that or off to a coke party.
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some great adverts there.
Now, if someone could locate the advert for the game 'Elite' that was narrated by Tom Baker I'd be very grateful. May have been a UK-only thing. - fuzzynyanko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A lot of the early computers advertised gaming. I'm surprised that I haven't seen Microsoft take that approach to Vista (yet).
- madhouseradio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The woman in the 386 rap ad needs it. From behind. I would mate with her.
- themaestro8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love this. I love to see how far we've come over the years and to see what my parents were using back in the 80s. Great way to start the morning.
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually still own a ZX81, TI99/4a, C64, TRS-80 Models 1,2,3,4p, plus quite a few others.
I'll see your 256x192 and raise you a 128x48x1bit color resolution of the Tandy Model 1.
Sad, I know :-) - Schrade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, very well done. They left out a major part of the whole thing though - the Amiga commercials!
Here's some of them:
http://www.eatsushi.org/content/dump/funny_vids/AmigaAdAward.avi
http://www.eatsushi.org/content/dump/funny_vids/AmigaAdCeleb.avi
http://www.eatsushi.org/content/dump/funny_vids/AmigaAdHouse.avi
Here's more, but they've been converted to MPEG-1 so are a bit lossy:
http://www.commodorebillboard.de/Commercials/Amiga/english/AmigaCommercials.htm - akabir77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And at the end of that add it was running Mission Impossible music very slow though...
- bluedepth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good god I'm an old man now! AHHH!
- lemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey I remember playing with flight simulator on a ZX81 with 16K RAM. 64x48 "high-res" graphics! You wanna talk about detail! Ha!
- jobernberger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That was great - what a time warp. Wonder where all the Amiga computer commercials are? When the 1000 came out it had 4096 colors! That's why I wanted one...and you could get an IBM-PC 'bridge' card.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Half a billion better spent elsewhere.
- amiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I had a vic20 and I'm feeling just a little old right now :)
- no1nos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hah, who was Atari's marketing team, Napoleon Dynamite?
Atari: We don't know what to say to customers to buy our comupters...
Napoleon: Just tell them that their wildest dreams will come true if they buy an Atari! - suribe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1related: http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-10877_11-6049686-1.html
- Hidama, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I think excellent grammar is hot. And this top ten list would be most of my pet peeves in life.
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