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Writen by Alexandru / 35 Comments

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If you are feeling that you’ve seen many of those ads it means you really know the history of computers and how Apple for example was looking good since then ! Watching those ads make me wanna buy an HC or ZX-Spectrum to play with my friends some damn old games !

Alexandru

Alexandru is the co-owner of TopDesignMag. “If it looks easy, it's hard. If it looks hard, it's impossible. If it looks impossible, it's due tomorrow. At 8 A.M.”

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http://bambule.de Michael
So great, thank you! Got my first ZX81 in 1982, spending days and nights with hacking code-listings into the 1024 bytes RAM.
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http://twitter.com/thiago_inspira Thiago Alves
The funny thing is that we will look at today’s ads in 2030 and laugh out loud..
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Anyone remember god awful 88MB syquest drives that would corrupt if you turned them sideways.
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Alexandru
Yes, I remember, I was going mad with that problem !

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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OA5JHOGZQRIPHO27EXJQLKBATQ DoctorD!
Oh, what a nostalgic leap! :D Thanks for the post :)
Anonymous
I’m glad to see that you liked so much this article. When I was a child, my first computer was an romanian HC (Home Computer) made by Ice Felix. It was a clone of Sinclair Spectrum.
First, I hadn’t a floppy and I was playing my games cassette tapes and wait to load game making stereo alien sounds. :) Ugly times ! After one-two years of headaches, I received from my father a floppy disk that was BIG, not like nowadays floppy disks. But then I was very quickly able to upload and save games.
http://twitter.com/kimrossey Kim Rossey
Me and a couple buds ran a computer store in the 80′s. Was a blast! First Amiga dealer in Ohio. BBS’s and all. What no Amiga ads.

Didier Prophete
Yeah… What’s up with that ? The Amiga ruled back in the days
Yogi
There’s an Amiga ad fourth from the bottom.

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http://twitter.com/rbanffy Ricardo Bánffy
Do you have the pictures in higher resolution? It would be great to be able to read the ad copy.

Anonymous
I really couldn’t find high resolution photos with those ads but I’m still searching to update the article.

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MC10K
lol, my first system was a Tandy MC-10 (i.e. had 10k of ram) that booted into GW-Basic ($299) … I couldn’t afford the external cassette player to save my code.
http://twitter.com/charlie_brwn charlottesarahalgie
great! I had an atari 130xe with tape drive, and plotter printer. and all my friends had c64′s :(
Still I really miss that goddamn comp, and the crazy basic coding i tried to do from the telephone book like manual. oh and the game Salmon run!
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The 16k RAM is really expensive, well to consider that those were the old days wherein computer does not dominate yet the whole world. What’s good to see is the first ever website being created and the look of its design haha.
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http://www.yaps4u.net shinerweb
Great post… I with Michael… ZX81 and the days of the z80 instruction set…
To think I’m sat here at home with a 64bit 860 i7 Intel core, with 8Gig of ram, with a 1 Gig HD 5770 Radeon Video Card, 8 TB of HDD . From little acorns, great oaks and all that…
Very nostalgic..
Thanks for the memories :)
Chris
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http://www.brettwidmann.com Brett Widmann
It’s so funny to see how design has progressed!
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http://www.bluetricks.co.cc Bluetricks
Awesome collection preserved very nicely…

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