101 old computer ad scans

[Raedon]

This might be worth the look for the older crowd or artist needing stock pictures.

Boing Boing put up a '101 Classic Computer Ads (http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/08/101-classic-computer.html)' entry. Some computers in there I haven't seen in ages like the AT&T personal computer. Lots of classics as well, vic20, c64, Atari, Odyssey², and so forth.

http://www.boingboing.net/compresized/ad080.jpg

[digitalpress]

Pretty cool stuff but very little that hasn't already been done in our archive, which has ten times more content in addition to higher resolution scans.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

Sorry, gotta plug in cases like this where SO much work went into it!

[Atari 5200]

Cool! Grandpa Munster likes to play odyssey^2!

[Poofta!]

Pretty cool stuff but very little that hasn't already been done in our archive, which has ten times more content in addition to higher resolution scans.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

Sorry, gotta plug in cases like this where SO much work went into it!

wow Joe, thanks! muuuch better! cant believe i never seen this before. almost shed a tear when i saw some of the ads of my youth that still seem so familiar and made me totally smile

[Raedon]

Pretty cool stuff but very little that hasn't already been done in our archive, which has ten times more content in addition to higher resolution scans.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

Sorry, gotta plug in cases like this where SO much work went into it!

Np at all! Wish I'd pointed that out. Was more about the scans for really old computers that had nothing to do with gaming that really made me post this. Cray, old mainframes, the Doral cigarette cartoon ad about using an old mainframe to prove how Doral was a safer product. :D

[Pantechnicon]

What always gets me about old print advertisements like this is how much they relied on conveying genuine information about the product via text i.e. - bona fide advertising copy.

Apple circa 1983:
http://www.boingboing.net/compresized/ad012.jpg

Apple circa 2000:
http://www.macsecrets.com/2002/img/logo_think_different_plakat.jpg

Either people have gotten dumber, or advertising has stopped assuming that anybody might actually be intelligent enough to read actual product details.

[squirrelnut]

Pretty cool stuff but very little that hasn't already been done in our archive, which has ten times more content in addition to higher resolution scans.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

Sorry, gotta plug in cases like this where SO much work went into it!

That website did not work for me. I typed in the link manually and it came up as a threat?

[NytroSkull7]

Cool, thanx man now i got some cool desktop backgrounds.

[Graham Mitchell]

So, after viewing some of these I'm a bit confused. I always thought the VIC-20 was some kind of add-on for the C64 allowing it to play cassettes, but in the ad it just looks like it IS a C64. Can somebody school me on this?

[Pantechnicon]

So, after viewing some of these I'm a bit confused. I always thought the VIC-20 was some kind of add-on for the C64 allowing it to play cassettes, but in the ad it just looks like it IS a C64. Can somebody school me on this?

The VIC-20 was Commodore's "low-end" computer offering compared to the C64. While similar to one another in size and shape, the two had completely different architecture inside.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic-20

[Lady Jaye]

Pretty cool stuff but very little that hasn't already been done in our archive, which has ten times more content in addition to higher resolution scans.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

Sorry, gotta plug in cases like this where SO much work went into it!

Heck, I even forgot that I provided several scans in that section... LOL (It has been a while, after all...)

[Greg2600]

Am I an idiot for thinking this post would have a scan of a 101 year old computer advertisement? I think so.

[Graham Mitchell]

The VIC-20 was Commodore's "low-end" computer offering compared to the C64. While similar to one another in size and shape, the two had completely different architecture inside.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic-20

Thank ya! All straightened out now.

[icbrkr]

Also got a spot on my page as well that I've been slowly updating http://www.particles.org/newsite/magazines/ads/ads.php