Tech Commercials From Way Back

I started out with a VIC 20 and than moved up to the Commodore 64 before moving on to a 286 Based Computer, which I eventually upgraded with a 386 chip. The good old days really weren't that far ago, were they?  

Thanks ID, brought back of a lot of memories of tying in basic language games in both the VIC and Commodore machines. That was a whold lot of fun especially when you made typing errors and had to go back and find them.   

LOL! I liked the Commodore64, Don't Copy that floppy, and Windows commercials.

Although I was too young to remember which versions I remember me and my older siblings had an NES, and an ATARI. I remember those big ol' cartridges and giant controllers but teeny monitors!   

I've had quite a few game systems, most memorable being the ATARI. We also had a TurboGraphix 16. Anyone remember that one? Cutting edge back in the day.

The TI-99/4A, now that was a computer! Nothing like saving those programs to cassette tape!   

Here's a commercial for it:

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I had Radio Shacks original Pocket Computer, CoCo, Model 2, Model 3 tape and 5inch floppy version, model 4 and model 4 portable. Then I started toward the big time I got the model 1000 from radio Shack it was an 8080 based IBM Clone and it's been all down hill from there. HaHaHa     

That CBM 64 was my first computer and I still remember how excited I was ( later I bought a STAR NL 10 printer for it ...remember those dot matrix printers ??? ) .

I still think folks developing software for those old machines were far more creative than is nowadays the case .You had to cram everything into a very limited amount of memory and they succeeded more often than not.And that Commodore 64 commercial showing "introduction to Basic " is included ( and the cassette deck, remember having to rewind or forward your tapes to the right location - and sometimes forgetting which tape it was or where on the tape it was ? )

Not on display is the ZX 81 and the Spectrum with those odd keyboards....

I ran out and bought one of those magnavox word processors as soon as they came out.....

Yes....had one, too.

Horrible noisy things....

when i was younger i had the commodore 64..i used to program that thing to no damn end LOL i had hot air balloons flying across the screen with red baron type of bi-planes shooting them down..then at school we had apple IIe's..then they brought in a computer (though i don't think any one heard of them before) a franklin ace 1000 which was 1000% identical (internal parts) of the apple IIe..apple tried suing them but for some reason lost the court case. my favorite game i played on them was this tarzan type of game and oregon trail.here is a cool site i found on vintage computers vintage computers

heya,
I am offended!

Atari had a 'computer' too! I learned to program in assembly language on the atari on the 6502 processor which was also the brains of your ole commodores too. remember the rivalries on the bulletin board systems? those were the daze yo

nada

ATARI 800XL FOR LIFE!   

Man I miss the simplicity of BASIC programming on that thing...player/missile graphics, too.

OK . . . Two years ago I still had my first 8088 (V20 chip!) based machine running DOS 3.2 I finally retired it from running at my family's business, making bar code labels for manufacturing. Still worked. I Loved the C64 and Amiga 1000 and 2000 machines. How about Zork on an Apple IIe? That was fun! My original pong machine still works!

Thanks. PS: Fidonet Sysop too! Yikes!

Fun, indeed...INFOCOM was awesome