Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Beneath Apple DOS, by Quality Software

It is not an advertisement, but is about computing in the 1980's. If you did any Apple II programming, you probably had a copy of this manual. It contained all of the details one needed to "hack" Apple DOS back in the day.
Beneath Apple DOS manual cover
Beneath Apple DOS manual cover
The evolution of Apple DOS
The evolution of Apple DOS
Do not feed the programmers
Do not feed the programmers

Beagle Brothers Software

Beagle Brothers made great software for the Apple II computer. They had a unique sense of humor in their advertising.

Beagle Brothers Advertisement
Beagle Brothers Adverstisement
Beagle Screens Samples
Beagle Screens samples


Beagle Brothers Software Catalog Cover
Beagle Brothers Software Catalog Cover
Early Music Synthesizer

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Maxell floppy disks

1980 computer advertisement for Maxell floppy disks
Floppy disks. A staple of 1980's computing. In the early part of the decade it was cassette tape or floppy disk. Hard drives were insanely expensive. Now floppy disks are like just like phonograph records, ask any kid today and they won't know what you are talking about.

IBM Charlie Chaplin

1980 Computer advertisement for the IBM PC
The IBM PC became king by the late 1980's. IBM had a series of classy advertisements featuring Charlie Chaplin.

Okidata

1980 computer advertisement for Okidata dot matrix printers
In the day, before laser printers, before color ink jets, there were dot matrix printers. They were noisy machines, which made a loud high pitched sound as the print head hammered out the characters. Dot matrix printers were also fast compared to teletype or daisy wheel printers. Okidata was one of the major printer companies back in the day.

Olympic Decathlon

1980 computer advertisement for Olympic Decathlon by Microsoft
Before Mario Party and Kinect Sports there was Olympic Decathlon. I have fond memories of wildly button mashing the keyboard to make my athlete run just a little bit faster.

Atari 800

1980 computer advertisement for the Atari 800
The Atari 800. I never owned one, but growing up playing games on the Atari 2600 VCS really made me want an Atari 800.