Bringing Back Memories

30 Old PC Ads That Will Blow Your Processor

Now this brings back memories, especially the IBM 5100 ad. We had an IBM 5100 at UCLA: switch selectable between APL and Basic, but who would use Basic? It was in the consulting room on the 3rd floor of Math Sciences (I want to say something like 3997C).

Then there was the Lisa. We had a Lisa at Quadratron, and I remember using it to generate the graphics for our documents. We were also porting Q-Office to it, for it also had a Xenix operating system available. We had the early Mac at SDC; again, I used it to generate graphics for some of our documents.

Boy, I’m glad a lot of that stuff is in the past.

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