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Weekend Event - Computers: 1993 Gateway
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My first home computer was a Gateway, and I vividly remember going to the Gateway Country store to configure and order it. I think I still have the complimentary mug around here somewhere...
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This one is from 1983 and I bought a used one circa 1989 for $200, the whole sale including a humongous daisy wheel printer and tape recorder and cassettes. The monitor had amber text. The goal was to be a work-at-home mom notereader-scopist, like that ever happened. *copious eye roll*
Howie Long Redux
Jun. 20th, 2016 06:57 pmkshandraThree commercials - one from 1987, two (behind the cut, with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
misstia's permission) from 2001.
( You've got questions. Radio Shack has answers. (Plus a bonus article about the campaign.) )
misstia's permission) from 2001.( You've got questions. Radio Shack has answers. (Plus a bonus article about the campaign.) )
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Misc. ads with Leonard Nimoy
Feb. 28th, 2015 02:00 pmpikkewyntjie.livejournal.comWe'll start with this because, come on, this is why we know and love him:
Which then spawned kaboodles of merchandising:
Well, kinda looks like him. Either way, Shatner probably wasn't happy to be left out.
And Mr. Nimoy's fate was sealed. Not everything he did was tied to Trek, but he would be inextricably tied to geekdom forevermore (not that that's a bad thing!)
Found here.
( Some TV ads under the cut. )
Which then spawned kaboodles of merchandising:
Well, kinda looks like him. Either way, Shatner probably wasn't happy to be left out.
And Mr. Nimoy's fate was sealed. Not everything he did was tied to Trek, but he would be inextricably tied to geekdom forevermore (not that that's a bad thing!)
Found here.
( Some TV ads under the cut. )
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cactuswren.livejournal.comTime, April 1967:
$115 in 1967 comes to about $800 in today's dollars -- roughly the price of a 64g iPhone 5S. Of course the smartphone comes with its own "power pack".
$115 in 1967 comes to about $800 in today's dollars -- roughly the price of a 64g iPhone 5S. Of course the smartphone comes with its own "power pack".
cactuswren.livejournal.comOffice technology, 1962!
Time, July 16 -- The IBM Selectric (with golf-ball printing technology that put IBM "ten years ahead of its time -- where it stayed, firmly rooted, for the next 20 years"):
Time, July 16 -- The IBM Selectric (with golf-ball printing technology that put IBM "ten years ahead of its time -- where it stayed, firmly rooted, for the next 20 years"):
