Desktops then and now (book review)

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Tore S Bekkedal wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 13:59 -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > > That's tame compared to some of the marketing literature and
> > > advertisements I've seen from the 1960s and 1970s.  The basic message
> > > could have been interpreted as, "this gorgeous woman loves this computer,
> > > and so by extension she will love you too if you buy it", or, "woman make
> > > good computer ornaments".
> >
> > You're kidding! That isn't true?
>
> I feel that this should have been brought to my attention previously.
>
> After so much work with the PDP-7 based solely on the hope that once I
> got the CPU stepping through instructions, attractive women would flock
> to both the computer and me...
>
> You sure ruined this teenager's day.

Hey, as long as you got an 8" floppy disk then all options are open.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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