06-16-2004, 05:00 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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Ads, ads and ads
Seen any interesting ads lately? No? Try funny! I recently paid Old-Computers.com a visit and came across their "Stupid Scan" page which brings forward many vivid memories from the 70s and 80s. How about this portable PC, the "DAI PORTABLE SYSTEM"?
My other five favorite scans are:
"GOLITE FAMILY" Mean.
"LEAVE ME SOME ROOM!" How politically incorrect can an ad be?
"PLAY SOCCER ON YOUR TV" Flying as Henrik Larsson...
"I JUST COME BACK FROM JOGGING" Wig!?
"ATARI AEROBICS" Watch that disc drive!
Also, don't miss the "Kitchen Computer" on the first page! "The Kitchen Computer was obviously geared towards housewives who loved to cook. However any housewives who wanted one of these had to shell out A LOT of green, considering the Kitchen Computer sold for $10,600 when it was first introduced (You could buy about four new cars for that much money in 1965!). This price tag included the built-in recipes, and also included a cookbook and an apron!"
I wonder which current ads will make it into tomorrow's "Stupid Scan" list? Any suggestions?
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06-16-2004, 05:10 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 476
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Re: Ads, ads and ads
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Originally Posted by Andy Sjostrom
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Ha! Nice headband! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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06-16-2004, 05:16 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Looks like their site is having some issues - I'm getting lots of errors on those links.
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06-16-2004, 05:22 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 476
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Looks like their site is having some issues - I'm getting lots of errors on those links.
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Hmmmm... I'm connecting fine.
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06-16-2004, 05:33 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 481
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Yeah Old-Computers.com is a Cool site. I browse around there a lot on the site but I never though of going back to '65. I thought I was old with my Timex Sinclair with a whopping 2k of ram. I didn't have a cassette player so I hung a plug off my car cassette player. The only problem with that was that I either had to go out to the car or figure a way to get the car in the basement. I compromised and brought an old car battery in the basement and hooked up a charger to it. I should have asked Honeywell what to do.
As far as the Kitchen Computer is concerned I guess they had to throw the apron in to make the sale - smart idea! Honeywell really knows how to market stuff. When you give away something for free people will buy anything :mrgreen: (well almost anything).
Jeff-
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06-16-2004, 05:42 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 276
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Man, I have an old Kalle Anka (Donald Duck magazine in Swedish) lying around from the start of the 90's where I recently saw an ad for Commodore C64! It was a girl and a boy supposedly "playing" a surfer-game on a C64 -- which only was a pasted in picture of a guy surfing... :razz: :lol:
Too bad that I don't have a scanner... 
UPDATE: not like this one, however...
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06-16-2004, 05:43 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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I'd have to say that this one is the best.
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06-16-2004, 06:48 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2002
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06-16-2004, 07:05 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 332
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06-16-2004, 09:09 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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I'd go for this one. Nice find! 
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