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AdFreak: Best Celebrity Computer Ads of the 1980s

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By Brian Shrader

Posted: November 30, 2009

AdFreak has a collection of what it believes are the best celebrity computer commercials of the 1980s. My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20, which William Shatner pitched on TV. What was yours?

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Atari 400 also with a cassette tape. Later got an Atari 800 with dual floppy drives.

shutterbug
November 30, 2009 5:10 p.m.

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I learned at school on an 8K TRS-80 Model 1, saving my files on cassette tape. Later the school bought model III's - one with a floppy drive (single sided) - happy days!! Played Space Invaders, Star Trek (text interface only), and a Pyramid journey game.

I owned a TI99/4A and a CoCo3 (color computer from Radio Shack). The CoCo with OS-9 was ironically a great computer for the time. Great for programming and included a mouse with pull down windows, really innovative for its time.

SaveEnergyMan
November 30, 2009 2:26 p.m.

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Radio Shack TRS-80.

rrzx-14
November 30, 2009 1:44 p.m.

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Apple IIe.

goodguy1977
November 30, 2009 1:28 p.m.

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My family had the Epson QX-10- no hard drive, monochromatic monitor (green and black!), dual disk drive (one for the program you were running, one to save). Graphics? Absolutely not! We had 2 games for the computer, one was an outer space Risk-type game, and the other was an early medieval journey-style game. Both were controlled by command lines- "Go left" "Pick up rock" "Run away"

Not Now
November 30, 2009 12:47 p.m.

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Apple IIgs!

DontBelieveTheHype
November 30, 2009 12:46 p.m.

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I have fond memories of Oregon Trail on my elementary school's Apple IIe.

Brian Shrader
November 30, 2009 12:04 p.m.

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First computer was an Apple ][+. Had a whopping 48K RAM, no hard drive, 5 inch single-sided floppies. Had a great time playing Olympic Decathlon and Castle Wolfenstein.

Smokin
November 30, 2009 11:25 a.m.

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