101 Classic Computer Ads

Terry Olaes

Terry Olaes

I Used to be the [H] News Guy
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BoingBoing has a great gallery containing 101 computer system and game ads from the past. Enjoy your trip down nostalgia lane and for you kids that don’t get it, just stand aside and let your elders reminisce. ;)
 
My brother in law still has that original ad that you posted. It's in a magazine that he still keeps around for bathroom reading material.
 
Tim said:
My brother in law still has that original ad that you posted. It's in a magazine that he still keeps around for bathroom reading material.
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That's some seriously old school bathroom reading material, Tim. :eek:
 
Haha Adblock even blocked these old school ads. I was about to come here and ask where the pics were.
 
LoL @ ComputerLand ad.
I learned my first DOS commands in '89 at a weeklong training seminar at ComputerLand. Company had bought a 286 for CAD design and I was the guy using it. That CAD job was gone within 2 years, but my IT career has been going strong since '97.

I'm sooo glad I moved on from the Atari 2600 phase to a PC. I still point out the fact that you don't get a job by indicating you are a trained console gamer these days.
;)
 
I've got some of those ads in a few 1980's magazines laying around. Bill Cosby selling TI stuff. Couple of 1987 Commodore and Amiga magazines. Still got 2 x Atari 2600s, Commodore 64, and a Vectrex in the closet. Good ol' memories.

I really should throw more things away....
 
Did anyone notice the Doral Cigarette ad squeezed in there?
That has to be the worst ad of the bunch, and not just because its for cigarettes.
 
And my first PC, the trash-80 color computer 2 is in there.. nice... still have it in the basement.. it still runs.. and the floppy drive can still read files I stored on a 5 1/4 floppy in 1985.
 
haha king kong bundy WICKED!!

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Wow.. brings back memories... had the Timex T-1000, Commodore 64, Atari 2600, 5200, 7800. One of my friends had a TRS-80.

Did anybody else notice how in the IBM commercial the hand is pressing the key with the middle finger... hehe.
 
i think I have one those IBM systems sitting somewhere in my basement...
 
Interesting, but no ads for the IBM 360 series?!?

Hell, that was probably the single most important series in modern day computing. Even though they were mainframes, they brought computing to a wide range of business, from large to small, and from the "science fiction" world into everyday life.

They also, in a way, were the start of cross-platform compatability. RCA, NCR, Honneywell, and others all came out with systems that were supposed to be "machine language compatabile" with the 360's in an effort to lure some of IBM's customers.

I was programming on an NCR Century 200 for a chemical company in Cincinnati, and all of the non-data processing people still called it the IBM room :rolleyes: We later (and not soon enough for me), Went to the IBM System 3 so the term IBM room was once more technically correct :)
 
Most of them are very dull, but there are a few that just stand out like this one.

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