Date: 2012-06-25 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corridor7f.livejournal.com
I love the mutton chops and bolo tie.

Date: 2012-06-25 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jasonbeast.livejournal.com
That was Asimov's standard look for decades.

Date: 2012-06-25 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donnalee-kiss.livejournal.com
I miss old Isaac.....*sigh* I'm getting old, all my authors growing up are dead.

Date: 2012-06-25 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jasonbeast.livejournal.com
Yeah, I'm right there with ya :(

Date: 2012-06-25 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daniela-lynx.livejournal.com
OMG ASIMOV ;AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA; *loves it*

Date: 2012-06-25 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rick-day.livejournal.com
But where do the Headphones plug in? Huh, Issac? Huh?

Date: 2012-06-25 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mantriddrone.livejournal.com
pocket calculator surely?

Date: 2012-06-25 05:26 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-06-26 12:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neuralclone.livejournal.com
*sigh* I'm old enough to remember when pocket calculators really *were* cutting edge technology, along with marvels like digital watches. %-} I wonder how people thirty or forty years in the future will view the technology of today?

(I love the ad btw. Isaac Asimov has my Inner Nerd happily squeeing!)

Date: 2012-06-26 12:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estelwen.livejournal.com
I read Asimov's explanation for this - he got given a Radio Shack computer as a gift or something, liked it, and agreed to do ads for them when asked.

Basically - it did what he wanted (help him keep his writings), and he was happy to say so publicly.

Kind of funny, really.

Date: 2012-06-26 02:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ejia-arath03.livejournal.com
Asimov's mutton chops were epic!

Date: 2012-06-26 05:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furnacechant.livejournal.com
My parents had the desktop TRS-80 and I wrote my first lines of Basic code on it at age 3. I miss when Radio Shack had all sorts of educational kit toys, that was the most fun I had in early childhood. We need to bring that kind of stuff back.

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