'80 Mbytes of storage for under $12k!' and other ad favorites through the years

ComputerWorld ^ | June 14, 2007 | Sharon Machlis

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Ahhhh, memories!

[dfwgator]

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Our first hard drive was a 3.8 megabyte drum.
It had 17 read/write heads that were in contact with the drum and if it was bumped before it stopped, it was ruined.

[martin_fierro]

[johnny7]

LMAO...

[johnny7]

LOL! That typeface in the headline is straight out’a the ‘doper-era’... circa 1972-1978... Antique Olive I believe?

[Clam Digger]

All is needs is some orange shag carpet and macrame things hanging from the ceiling.

[qam1]

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[jdm]

Imagine walking into Starbucks later and sitting down at a table and opening up one of these. Imagine the looks!

[johnny7]

All is needs is some orange shag carpet and macrame things hanging from the ceiling.

...and an 'e-z wider' ad running next to it.

[johnny7]

[Red in Blue PA]

Remember the old TRS-80 computer?

Several thousand dollars and it really didn’t do a whole lot!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Ahhh the Trash 80. Remember the Timex Sinclair?

[ßuddaßudd]

I have a 1987 Compaq Portable LANalyzer for sale.

[Kevmo]

B4L8r

[T.Smith]

We had a Sinclair. I little black thing, wasn’t it? We followed that up with a VIC 20 and later a Commodore 64.

[lesser_satan]

I had one. There was very little software for it, and had to write your own a lot. I couldn’t afford a floppy drive, so I had a cassette drive for it, and the tapes would always get corrupted or otherwise f$%ked up and you’d lose whatever you’d spent hours figuring out and typing in.

[SunkenCiv]

JS&A Products that Think? I picked up some, uh, discontinued products through Sugarman.

ComputerWorld’s writer might have been a little more humble about this if she’d reviewed the ads for the many, many computer magazines which have vanished in the past 25 years.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, duh, silly me, it was DAK... I got an Olivetti inkjet printer from DAK, it had glass ink tubes (very easy to change, pretty small capacity) with what looked like the spring from a pen inside, if memory serves. The print quality was kinda mediocre, not least because it had no descenders.

[NMR Guy]

Re: Coleco Adam

I had one of those. Unfortunately.

It was all my parents could afford to buy. Even at my very young age, I could tell it was junk. My folks would get mad when I printed out reports for school late at night, because the super noisy printer sounded like a machine gun in slow motion, and it would wake them up.