Treasure trove of old computer advertisements

We here at Boing Boing Gadgets have an affinity for old computer ads, and for us, this site of the same is like being a teenage boy and accidentally stumbling across a chest full of your dad’s old stag films in the basement.

Old Computer Ads [Old Computers via Qt3]

1. [stjarna]

   Very cool. I remember seeing some of these ads in magazines when I was a kid!

   If you’re using AdBlock you won’t see the images on the site unless you add an exception:

   @@|http://oldcomputers.net/ads/*

2. [mgfarrelly]

   Trust this man, he’s a starship captain.

   I don’t mean Kirk, I mean Captain William Shatner.

3. [Anonymous]

   I think it’s awesome that he’s running a biorhythms program. I wonder if he typed it in himself.

4. [Brett Diamond]

   I dig the biorhythms.

5. [mistersite]

   The VIC-20 can take your children from preschool to post-graduate studies.

   Let’s see… a preschooler in 1981 would be about 31-32 in 2008… any 31-year-old postgrads still using their VIC-20?

   (If they are, they’re probably not able to read this page.)

6. [Trent Hawkins]

   hey, what I learned on the VIC-20 is what made me the man I am today. An angry and bitter man.

7. [OM]

   …As I’ve posted before in the past, laugh all you want about the VIC-20, but with the 3K vector graphics cart I made a rather large amount of bar credit at a couple of local bars in the mid-80′s by doing really rudimentary-by-today’s-standards vector abstract animations and dumping them to videotape. This gave the DJ something to play on the TV if there wasn’t any sports on worth showing that would give the drunks something to stare at and go “glx sptzl glaa!” at rather than falling on the floor trying to grab some poor sorority dink’s tight jeaned butt. It was really wild what could be done with just 8K of RAM, especially if you wrote most of the code using PEEK and POKE commands with keywords shorthanded using Commode-Door’s token codes.

   It really was an underrated machine for its day.

8. [Anonymous]

   adblock blocked all the pictures on that site. I lol’d

9. [Not a Doktor]

   #7 Om

   Any videos?

10. [Chrisos]

    Assuming the centre of the biorhythm graph is today, it looks like The Shat was on a high that day, everything is in the positive! Definitely time to try and make out with a hot alien chick!

    Looking at the semi monitor hug, emotionally he was on a high, that’s for sure.

11. [fistula spume]

    #5 Mistersite

    I’m a 32 year old who has a Vic-20 and I can confirm that I never went to grad school or college for that matter. I can recommend Radar Rat Race though. That game rules!