In twenty years the ad will be replaced by an iPhone or Samsung phone as they are way too expensive for what you get nowadays.

In the early 1980s hard disks were not that common. Many computers had 1 or sometimes 2 floppy disk drives.

I'm shure they are still working though

But apparently it comes with a mini-fridge!

For perspective, it was still called a microcomputer.

whoa UNDER 18000? where do I sign?

What a bargain!

Never mind that check out the big and bulky pinking shears!

I just bought two 12TB Hard drives for $280. $23/TB. -- This 10MB HD is priced at $340 per MB. At that rate, the 12TB HDs I bought would have cost $23M. -- Today, 1GB (1000MB) is around...23 cents. And 10MB of space is worth less than a penny. -- Amazing how much tech changes in 30-40 years.

Emulating an Apple II on a C64 back in the day?! Would love to see someone demonstrating this device.

They lost against VHS even though it was the better system.

10 million byte = 10 Mb

It looks kinda like of an AVID station keyboard !

Oh wow! I had the Sinclair ZX81 and it was about as effective as 'Worm' on the Nokia in terms of processing power

Had one. My elder mother still uses hers, which she bought in 1983...

Would be cool to get one of these, replace the tv with a touchscreen pc and use it to play my music....

"Vidstar - Pure Porn - Pure and Simple"

"Simulated TV reception"

Ah yes, the days of making AV gear look like bits of furniture.

We used to call these the "Trash 80"

I can tell you from personal experience that de-fragging one of those drives takes hours.

And today, one can get an iPad Pro with 1 terabyte(1024 Gb) of storage from Apple for around $1500.

So cute! I want it!

This is why I didn't bother with a mobile phone till they became affordable around the late 90's.

C'mon, right? I mean, who *doesn't* want a tape player build right into the wall and exposed to the elements? If that thing un-spools, they can just use one of those giant *gag* pens to re-spool it.

since the zoom mechanism was driven by the same clockwork that advanced the film, I wonder if the frame-rate briefly dipped while using that feature.

Made to look like a sewing machine?

Well the price for an Apple product hasn't changed much.

Imagine how grim it must've been to be tied to one of these all day every day

My first computer. Spent hundreds of hours typing in code in C64 magazines to run free games. What a hoot!

I actually had this. My dad added an extra 64k memory to the base 64k, but since it was an 8-bit OS, it could only access 64k of memory and the rest (that he paid several hundred $ for) could only be used as a RAM drive.

Another 1949 ad which promises the ridiculous: "Giant Electronic close-up". Definitely a feature we've all used on our TVs. Right...

Exactly 2-3 games being advertised. The rest are "educational" or "business". Console computer companies often had no clue who their real audiences were...

In the days of the CB craze!

"Don't lose the key or you're SOL."

The first computer I ever used.

I think Apple should go back to using that Logo :)

That's an Atari VCS, I guess Sears just re-brand everything.

"Dust-free case sold separately."

My dad was a computer tech in the 70s, working on giant computers for The Omni.

Sure, so you burn a hole in your parents' wallet instead? like a kid can afford that.

Including the tape interface, that seems like a pretty good deal for an entry-level machine.

Matt "Techmoan" Taylor has a great episode explaining Grundig and DC international, and how they relate to Philips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT3_cS1KNYc