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Title: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: CactusCarlos on June 13, 2008, 08:47:21 PM
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEI7mm8M7Q&NR=1[/youtube]

 :-)
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: Lord Undies on June 13, 2008, 09:15:39 PM
Everything starts somewhere.  We had all the neighbors stopping by after we got the first push-button phone in 1968.  Everyone had to play the tones. 
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: RobJohnson on June 14, 2008, 12:46:08 AM
Cool blast from the past!

Hi5
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: Zeus on June 14, 2008, 12:55:21 AM
The Original Computer
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm116/01Zeus/originalcomputer.jpg?t=1213415522)
Memory was something you lost with age
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano
A web was a spider's home
A virus was the flu
A CD was a bank account
A hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived.
And if you had a 3 inch floppy .....

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm116/01Zeus/originalcomputer3inchefloppy.gif?t=1213415956)
. . . you just hoped nobody ever found out!

Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: Schadenfreude on June 14, 2008, 01:00:45 AM
Zeus....  :lmao:
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: Schadenfreude on June 14, 2008, 01:03:44 AM
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 13, 2008, 09:15:39 PM
Everything starts somewhere.  We had all the neighbors stopping by after we got the first push-button phone in 1968.  Everyone had to play the tones. 

You were spoiled rotton. I think we had a rotary phone through most of the 70s. I can't remember when we got our color tv, but I was nearly in shock when I watched Star Trek in color for the first time.
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: Lord Undies on June 14, 2008, 05:59:49 AM
Quote from: Schadenfreude on June 14, 2008, 01:03:44 AM
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 13, 2008, 09:15:39 PM
Everything starts somewhere.  We had all the neighbors stopping by after we got the first push-button phone in 1968.  Everyone had to play the tones. 

You were spoiled rotton. I think we had a rotary phone through most of the 70s. I can't remember when we got our color tv, but I was nearly in shock when I watched Star Trek in color for the first time.

The first color TV I ever saw was in 1959 or 1960.  It was at my Dad's boss' house.  NBC was the only network broadcasting anything in color, and I think it was only two shows a week.  I saw a few minutes of "The Cisco Kid" in color.  I was five or six. 

That same man had a BIG reel-to-reel tape recorder in his den.  He let us kids record our voices and he would play it back.  I was in Wonderland!  I think I sang the "Felix The Cat" theme.

The touch-tone phone thing was a fluke.  My mother was having the phone company in to do some repairs.  The phone man just happened to have one of the new phones (in RED!) on his truck.  We just happened to live in one of the few areas that was touch-tone ready.  I talked my mom into spending the extra seventy-five cent per month. 

It was the first - only - and last time my mother was on the "cutting edge".

We got our first color TV in May of 1970.  It was delivered in the middle of "The Guiding Light".  I was in awe.  The picture was so clear and colorful and beautiful.  The new set was a beautiful piece of furniture too.  Remember when console TV sets were furniture?     
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: RobJohnson on June 15, 2008, 11:30:54 AM
We lived in rural area and were not able to get touch tone until the late 80's....call waiting came first...and caller id was not available until 2000!
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: Randy on June 15, 2008, 02:16:46 PM
Quote from: Schadenfreude on June 14, 2008, 01:03:44 AM
Quote from: Lord Undies on June 13, 2008, 09:15:39 PM
Everything starts somewhere.  We had all the neighbors stopping by after we got the first push-button phone in 1968.  Everyone had to play the tones. 

You were spoiled rotton. I think we had a rotary phone through most of the 70s. I can't remember when we got our color tv, but I was nearly in shock when I watched Star Trek in color for the first time.
Awwwwwww they were well into reruns by then huh? :-)
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: Randy on June 15, 2008, 02:21:18 PM
I left Jacksonville Fl in my Sr year of HS (class of '75) and we still had a party line. We were in BFE at the time we moved in ('72) and they didn't have enough lineage out that way yet. They promised us a private line when they got the capacity up but my parents seeing a chance to save a nickle....
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: Lord Undies on June 15, 2008, 02:23:44 PM
Quote from: RobJohnson on June 15, 2008, 11:30:54 AM
We lived in rural area and were not able to get touch tone until the late 80's....call waiting came first...and caller id was not available until 2000!

What we take for granted now was a big deal then.  The amazing thing about the touch tone phone was that a person could dial WHitehall 7-9099 just as fast as one could dial FEderal 1-1211.  Sore "phone cucticles" were a thing of the past, too!  
Title: Re: Commodore VIC-20 Commercial
Post by: Lord Undies on June 15, 2008, 02:29:05 PM
Quote from: Randy on June 15, 2008, 02:21:18 PM
I left Jacksonville Fl in my Sr year of HS (class of '75) and we still had a party line. We were in BFE at the time we moved in ('72) and they didn't have enough lineage out that way yet. They promised us a private line when they got the capacity up but my parents seeing a chance to save a nickle....

The Dallas area was not considered "with it" way back then, but we did have our advantages.  We had Southwestern Bell Telephone, which was the largest and most advanced communications sector of Bell Telephone outside the Eastern Seaboard area.  We were always among the first to get the bells and whistles.