Desktops then and now (book review)

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, 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?

Are you being facetious?

At any rate, no, in this rare case I am not kidding.  The brochures and
ads from the 1960s and 1970s were amazingly mysoginistic.  If the editors
of FHM were alive back then, they'd be doing computer industry ads.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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