15 Computer Ads From The Past (1950-1980)
Don’t worry he will be here soon and trust me techy knows his shit so when he is here he will be here with a bang. Hope this gives a little boost….hope so.
Anyways, here are some images that show the ways computers and computer products were marketed back in the days. You will find images for each year ranging from 1950 to 1980. If you got any cool ones feel free to link it in the comments section. All images are directly linked to the main source.
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1950
Univac Scientific Computer
Ampex C1 Computer Tape
HP 524D Digital Counter
1960
Honeywell 800
Autonetics
Autonetics Recomp II
IBM 360
1970
Bit Inc. BIT 483 Minicomputer
HP 3000
Apple II
RadioShack TRS-80
1980
RadioShack TRS-80
White Computer
Action Computer Multiprocessor System
Vector VIP Computer
Were you around when these ads were circulating? If you were born in 1950 and reading this blog then we would like to give you a big ol’ pat on the back. It is commendable and we sure do appreciate you still living, breathing and computing.



















7 Rockin' Comments
October 29th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Talk about a walk down memory lane. Funny thing is that I actually remember at least one of those ads specifically, even after all these years!
October 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
@Stephane: “If you were born in 1950 and reading this blog then we would like to give you a big ol’ pat on the back. It is commendable and we sure do appreciate you still living, breathing and computing.” If you are one of them please let us know we would like to keep our promise.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Born before 1950. And I *programmed* on a Honeywell 800, one of the strangest machines ever. Hardware multiplexing of eight program threads, two instruction registers you could flip between, a sign digit on each so you could run programs backwards, and about six jillion forms of indirect addressing. Debugging was akin to cryptanalysis.
October 29th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
@Old Earl: please accept a big ol’ pat on the back from us. If it wasn’t for “old earls” like you we wouldn’t have anything to write about.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Nice Article, Adding to RSS Now
October 30th, 2008 at 11:35 am
@DiscussHub : you are the kind of visitor we like here on TechyShit who instead of becoming a guest becomes a part of family
November 9th, 2008 at 7:20 am
and kick the a** of others?
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