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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

That's $6,230.03 in today dollars!

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's fantastic; I've never seen these. I love it!

[–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My grandparents had one of these. My 80 yo grandma typed up Christmas letters on that tiny little screen well into the 1990s.

Wish it was still around. Wonder if it could run doom.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Doom8088 could maybe be ported to Z80 CP/M. It already has text-mode support and runs in 64 KB.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Not as far as a quick search pulled up.

[–] FiniteLooper@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always imagine being able to take something like a modern phone or laptop back in time to show people of this era, and just totally blow their mind

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Hell, show them a multi-terabyte nvme

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Joe MacMillan's baby.

godDAMN SCOOT MCNAIRY

[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I wonder, what people want to do with this computer these old day ?

Buy an equivalent 6k today machine just to do spreadsheet ?