Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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For sharing images of vintage magazine ads, fliers, promos, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's $6,230.03 in today dollars!

[–] clay_pidgin 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's fantastic; I've never seen these. I love it!

[–] itsworkthatwedo 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My grandparents had one of these. My 80 yo grandma typed up Christmas letters on that tiny little screen well into the 1990s.

Wish it was still around. Wonder if it could run doom.

[–] clay_pidgin 1 points 1 month ago

Not as far as a quick search pulled up.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 1 month ago

Doom8088 could maybe be ported to Z80 CP/M. It already has text-mode support and runs in 64 KB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always imagine being able to take something like a modern phone or laptop back in time to show people of this era, and just totally blow their mind

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hell, show them a multi-terabyte nvme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I wonder, what people want to do with this computer these old day ?

Buy an equivalent 6k today machine just to do spreadsheet ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Joe MacMillan's baby.

godDAMN SCOOT MCNAIRY