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Re:Vintage Apple Advertisements by PostOnce on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:24PM (#34008313)
I wanted to read the "please tell me what a personal computer can do" list, but it's blurry, so here's a high-res version: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/newads15/someoneplease3...

How much longer that list would be today is a little breathtaking.

Re:Vintage Apple Advertisements by jxy on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:51PM (#34009165)
Thanks for the high-res link. Surprisingly our computers still do these things, after forty some years. Yet their ancestors did the same job while holding "2,400 double spaced pages or 30,000 names and addresses."
Re:Vintage Apple Advertisements by amelius on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:29AM (#34013377)
It's funny that Apple calls their computers a "PC".

Was that before the IBM PC?

Re:Vintage Apple Advertisements by mcculley on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:00AM (#34013620)
Yes. It is a weird historical artifact of terminology. We had lots of “personal computers” before IBM made theirs. After that, IBM’s offering became the product most associated with the term. It is a weak example of genericide.