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15 Vintage Computer Ads That Used To Be Cool. “640K ought to be enough for anybody” – Bill Gates 1981 “The cost for 128 kilobytes of memory will fall below U$100 in the near future” – Creative Computing magazine 1981 It’s always funny to read those old computer magazines, because nothing gets old faster than the technology news. Can you believe that the computer in your cell phone already has more processing power than all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 2 men on the moon? Did you know that the first HDD introduced in 1979 by Seagate was only 5 MB and cost ~ $1500 USD? These facts make us feel so good about our current gadgets, but our kids will laugh at our 2TB portable HDD disks or 8GB DDR3 Ram memory.

Here are some very cool vintage computer ads for you – laugh while you can, because next time someone will be laughing at what you have right now. 1. 2.Two Bytes Are Better Than One 3. 4. 5. 16K RAM Working Giant 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 15 Vintage Computer Ads That Used To Be Cool. Welcome to OLD-COMPUTERS.COM ! Old Computers - rare, vintage, and obsolete computers. MAME Mame 0 37b5 Roms s ROMs & Games free to download. Classic Retro Games - Retro Gamer Magazine. The Vintage Video Game Magazine Archive. <div class='message error'><strong>Javascript Disabled Detected</strong><p>You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. </p></div><br /> Toggle Site Discussions Site Discussions Latest Classifieds There are no recent classifieds. Add an Advert Latest Posts 33,222 Total Posts 3,745 Total Members Mappy123 Newest Member 380 Most Online 29 users are online (in the past 15 minutes) 1 members, 28 guests, 0 anonymous users (See full list) Softingnor, Google, Bing Most members ever online in one day was 61, last accomplished on 09 Oct 2012.

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