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 3 months ago

That's $6,230.03 in today dollars!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not as far as a quick search pulled up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

Hell, show them a multi-terabyte nvme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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 3 months ago

Joe MacMillan's baby.

godDAMN SCOOT MCNAIRY