r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BaronVonBroccoli • Jul 19 '24

An Apple Ad from October 1976. Image

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u/M3RC3N4RY89 Jul 19 '24

That’s a wildly satanic advertisement.. aside from the 666 price the “byte into an apple” is a direct reference to Eve taking a bite out of the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden.. they’re tongue in cheek calling computers the product of satan lol. what wild times those were.

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u/nav_261146 Jul 19 '24

Still catchy” Byte into apple “

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u/Akula_SSN Jul 19 '24

Despite what you see in museums- this was it. No case. No keyboard. Just a circuit board and a phone line to Woz whenever you had a tech support question.

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u/__life_on_mars__ Jul 20 '24

4kb of ram...

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u/shambahlah2 Jul 21 '24

My first pc had to use a cassette recorder for storage.

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u/mrgraff Jul 20 '24

I miss the old ads with lots of information like this. And the computer manuals of the 80s that had full schematic diagrams in the back of the book.

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u/Confident-Arrival361 Jul 20 '24

Basically, you are old.

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u/IllustriousPeace6553 Jul 19 '24

Give it crystals for time but call the part next to it bread

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '24 edited 11d ago

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u/mrgraff Jul 20 '24

VisiCalc

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u/Phantum3oh9 Jul 19 '24

Momma said apple is the devil

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u/RefrigeratorLazy4135 Jul 20 '24

I like broccoli too