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Personal Computer Ads from the 1980s

• jgamman 9y ago
  the cocaine ads from the 70s in the link at the bottom is surreal. the more things change huh...
  • King-Aaron 9y ago
    I found those fascinating too. It would have been good to have more mention of which publications those adverts appeared in.
• ilaksh 9y ago
  If you were ever into ZX Spectrum there is a massive archive of magazines here http://live.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek/magazines http://live.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek/magazines
  • stevekemp 9y ago
    I'm sure I'm not the only person who started programming via the ZX Spectrum, especially given how popular they were in the UK: * https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html I love looking at World Of Spectrum, even now, and playing Chuckie Egg, Manic Miner, or Chaos on emulators.
• pcurve 9y ago
  My parents spent nearly 60% of their salary buying their 9 year old son an Apple II compatible machine, I'm sure with high hopes. Buyer's remorse probably set in very quickly when they realized their two sons used it primarily for playing bootleg copies of Olympics, Karateka, Rescueraider, and spy vs spy. I don't know what the hell they were thinking, but I'm still forever grateful for their failed attempt.