9 Old Computers Ads you did not see

By Manav

16K Ram Card that turns your computer into a working Giant ( 16K!!!!!! WT…)

Looking for a 16 Bit Microcomputer ?

What the heck is electronic email ?

Hmm how much would 80MBytes of Harddisk will Cost ?

Thats a Sexy Modem

Colored Computer

Beat that laptop Now

Excel ..Probably the first version

Bill Gates Tandy 2000

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Joel Thomas, July 7, 2008:

Interesting ads…But made me realize the computer development was much faster than I had thought so far…Whats now trendy would be absolute in next 3 or 4 years.
Sandip, July 7, 2008:

holycow, Woohooooo Awesome Post Man, feels really nice after looking those way back Ads.
SteveD, July 7, 2008:

Nice article, just wish the pictures were a bit bigger so it would be easier to read the details.
Ilia Boyko, July 8, 2008:

300MB for $20.000? What a bargain!
sandswipe, July 9, 2008:

Is that freaking Isaac Asimov in that one in the middle? Freaking awesome. I’d buy anything that guy recommended. Too bad he died sixteen years ago.
Keith Dsouza, July 10, 2008:

Wow this is really funny, God did anyone believe back then that we would see so much innovations over a period of time.
davesworkout, July 10, 2008:

Ha! I remember my first computer was a ti-994/a and it was over $1000 for a 32k memory expansion unit that was the size of an entire PC nowadays.

I can remember buying a 80 MB hard drive for about 800 dollars and it was also the size of a whole PC nowadays.

And god do i remember my first 300 baud modem with the little coupler for the telephone that you hung it up onto when connecting..

ha how times have changed.
Syahid A., July 11, 2008:

Lol on “briefcase portability” ad!
Manoj, July 11, 2008:

Are you see ole computer ada. in net we will give you some links.and points.
Lida, July 25, 2008:

20k usd for 300 MB :)) i am not older in PC, my first hdd is 1 GB and i paid about $300
Alex, July 26, 2008:

I wonder what would happen if I showed these people my PC with a Core 2 Duo (2.4GHz), 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive.
x64, July 26, 2008:

@ Alex:

Haha, they’d probably not believe you first, and then later they’d praise it and make a new religion around you

Or perhaps they’d steal the technology, something which would lead to a leap in innovation, and today’s home PC’s having the processing power of about 1-2 PFLOPs (Peta [1*10^15 or something? don't quite remember...] Floating-Point-Operations Per Second), which is about the same as today’s supercomputers IIRC

For comparison: the regular G/CPU’s power is measured in GFLOPs [1*10^9] today ^^

Disclaimer: I didn’t proof-read all the definitions in this post before posting, so there may be some fact-errors. I just typed what I could (or thought I could remember) at this moment
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