10 best celebrity computer ads of the 1980s

[TrainTrac]

For your amusement: Jack Black, Bill Cosby, Kevin Costner, and of course... SHATNER!!!



Enjoy!

 

[Roger Batts]

I remember the Pitfall commercials. Until I saw the still from it, I didn't realize that was Jack Black!

 

[Matt Alvin]

It's funny to watch those computer commercials....on my Netbook...we have come a long way.

 

[TrainTrac]

Or better yet, on my iPod Touch!:banana:

 

[Jerry Abson 3]

The worst thing is, I just threw away my old TI, and I think my dad still has that exact Compaq sitting in his garage!

 

[David Ponder]

Bill Cosby... "This is the one, with 16K memory..." We have come a long way.

I do remeber buying a 6.4GB Quantum Bigfoot hard drive on SALE at Besy Buy for $389.00..

Now you can get 1TB for under $100.00.

 

[Jacob Dryer]

As a budding computer nerd of the early nineties.. I paid $150 for 4Mb of ram, and around $200 for a 540 Mb hard drive. That was big bucks for a kid, but I doubled my ram and added the second hd for more storage from 210 Mb.



But I don't remember any of those commercials.. I was born in 81

 

[Thomas Rogers]

My first computer was an IBM PC XT, which I upgraded myself to add an external 3.5" 720kb diskette drive, and an internal, full-height 10MB hard drive; and a 256 color EGA adapter.



The thing was a boat anchor, several feet across, deep and at least 10" tall.



Those were the days my friend.



Now, there is more storage and mips and graphics capabilities in an ipod Nano that isn't much bigger than a pack of gum.



TJR

 

[Bill V]

I remember that George Plimption ad, and a couple others.



It's amazing to think about how those computers and ads from a quarter century ago look today, and then to consider what our current computers and ads will look like a quarter of a century from now. It's hard to even imagine what the state of the art might be then...

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Bill V,



Agreed. I often try to imagine what 20 to 30 years from now will look like.



I think we will find even more digital media in more consumer equipment, and more of that equipment will work together.



I never envisioned a smartphone 15 years ago, and certainly never thought that my laptop would be able to wirelessly use my smartphone for its communications conduit when I am on the road...but that's what I do today. My Blackberry 9000 acts as my laptop's 3G modem, wirelessly, using Bluetooth. Not that speed (120kbs), but gives me communications when I might no otherwise have any.



TJR

 

[Jim Johnson]

I remember those commercials!



My first computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer, with a blazing 0.9 MHz Motorola 6809 CPU and 32 kilobytes of RAM. The Extended Color Basic OS could only access the first 16k of RAM. Only some games and the optional OS/9 operating system -- which required an external floppy drive -- could access the full 32k. The CPU could be overclocked to 1.8 MHz with the command "POKE 149,0OKE 150,41" although some software would reset it.



I regret now that I let my wife pester me into selling it several years ago. It actually made a pretty good MIDI sequencer and I'd probably still use it in my studio.