How does Santa keep track of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice? A computer database, of course. And it runs on an Apple II.
Looks like Woz saved Christmas!
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As a sequel to last year’s “Very TRS-80 Christmas,” we have this ad for the TRS-80 Color Computer 2. I’m not sure what makes this model “better” than the first Color Computer (CoCo), aside from obvious: different keyboard, ugly case-retooling, and perhaps more RAM.
Unfortunately, this unit ages to a nasty brown and its rubber-dome keyboard isn’t much of an improvement (I still like the CoCo 1’s keyboard better). But at least Tandy saw it fit to advertise the unit with a Christmas theme, which is quite relevant to the season at hand.
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R2D2 he is not. But at least he can become a vacuum cleaner.
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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jackboots kicking at your nose…
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How did they work? Think of a CCD video camera without motion. Still video cameras captured single frames of electronic video and stored them on removable magnetic discs in an analog video format. In order to get the images onto a computer (assuming that’s what you wanted to do), each video still had to be digitized with a computer video capture device (much like today’s TV tuner cards). But it wasn’t long until fully digital consumer cameras made this cumbersome process — and analog electronic cameras — obsolete.
[ From MacUser – December, 1989 ]
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Hmm. I wonder what game this is a copy of?
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Welcome to the world’s most bizarre and confusing vintage computer ad. The headline of the ad reads “hook a winner*,” but upon examining further down the page, you’ll notice that the footnote asterisk sits halfway between the words “dolphin” and “winner.”
So what exactly were they trying to say? “Hook a winner, not a dolphin” or “Hook a winner — like a dolphin”? Either way, who hooks dolphins?
“Damn, it’s another dolphin; gotta throw him back.”
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[ From BYTE Magazine, May 1981 ]
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I acquired this slick brochure promoting “The Voice” some years ago when I bought a nice collection of Odyssey 2 stuff. The Voice add-on unit apparently added speech synthesizer capabilities (and enhanced sound effects, according to the flier) to Magnavox’s Odyssey 2 console. I don’t own a “The Voice,” but I’ve always wanted one. They’re very rare, so if anybody has one they don’t want anymore, let me know.
Did anyone out there have one of these units?
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I pose this question to you, dear readers: is any numeric keypad worth $129? Even in 1993? Certainly the Kensington KeyPad’s exorbitant price put it in parity with Apple’s hyperexpensive products in the early 1990s. But why would anyone buy a numeric keypad for the modern equivalent of $186? I suspect lack of competition in the numeric Mac keypad market had something to do with it.
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Halloween will soon be upon us, and you know what that means. That’s right! It’s time for VC&G’s 5th caption contest.
Your task? Simply write the funniest caption you can think of for the image above. Anyone out there may enter the contest as many times as they want by writing a comment on this post. I will select the winning caption a week from today and post the result. The winner will receive an autographed*, heavily used copy of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, which I will mail to him/her if he/she lives in the United States.
But of course, it’s not really about winning; it’s about the self-satisfaction you’ll gain by entertaining your peers and the joy of participating in a community event.
So join in the fun. Let’s see what you guys can come up with for this one.
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* Autographed by Ulaf Silchov.
