Actually, I preferred Best Products over Service Merchandise.
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Man. Kay Bee toys and Service Merchandise (a "Catalog Showroom"!) bring back memories all in themselves... -sc From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion My first computer.. the ADAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam Bought it at a Kay Bee toy store. Don't remember the price, but I worked all summer with my dad to pay it off! My first computer I purchased was from Service Merchandise. It was a 286, with 25 MB hard drive and 16KB of Ram. $850. It did not have a cd rom and I needed one. I saved and saved for months to purchase a 2x CD-Rom.. For $450. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Mid-year 1983, a St Louis-based grocery store chain was giving away, with the purchase of 3 tubes of toothpaste- 1. Sinclair/Timex Z-81 2. 8 Kb (or was it 16?)memory expansion 3. Cassettes for a spread sheet, a database, and a backgammon game The Sinclair had its OS and BASIC on ROM. It also had BASIC functions on the keys. That is, instead of typing "Poke", you simply held one key and pushed the key that said "Poke". My kids and I wpent many happy hours playing with this... "Steven M. Caesare" <scaes...@caesare.com> wrote on 07/16/2010 09:10:40 AM: > Man, I remember a bunch of these. > > http://www.informationtechnologyschools.org/blog/2010/30-old-pc-ads- > that-will-blow-your-processor/ > > -sc > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
