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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Believe whatever you want to believe

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

Finally I have permission

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago
[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Daaaaang, that’s so many different messages, it’s more than 29 messages!

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

space age tech

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's more than there are letters! Crazy what modern tech can do!

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Do you think that if Pheidippides had to run his marathon all the way to Sparta, there would be enough message space on one of these calculators to convince the Spartans not to let the big wooden horse in, after he died?

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wow, a smart-'phone' in 1979... although I guess you could just have used a piece of paper

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Or a File-o-fax, if you were a cool, modern technology minded person.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

You could still just use a piece of paper

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

smart paper you say... that's an idea for a startup

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Blue pill", and 20 years before The Matrix came out.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

And before viagra

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Broker is code for something else, right?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I had something like this in the early eighties. It was cool and all until it died and took all my data with it. Lesson learned.