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1977 - Introducing the Apple II (Vintage Ad)

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  • tomboy501, on 10/10/2007, -2/+185Obviously women washed dishes...and men played on the computer back in the 70s ;)
    • spinchange, on 10/10/2007, -1/+57Look closer, she's actually slicing apples.
      (Although this probably implies even worse gender-stereotyping - the man is 'computing' with his apple, while the women is preparing something to eat with hers!)

      • tomboy501, on 10/10/2007, -0/+35hmmm...you're right, Chris. it looks like little tomatoes or something. She's preparing a stew!

        And after another look at that pic, I have decided that I am more disturbed by their expressions:
        Her: "that's my man. He's so smart."
        Him: "that's right, babe. Let me know when dinner is ready."
        • Icecream, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4STRAWBERRIES YAY!
        • heliox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Do you think she put carrots and potatoes in? I really hope so.
        • dopplerdog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hmm.. I don't think she's thinking "he's so smart". She's looking at her husband goof off while she's doing housework, so she's obviously fantasizing what she'd rather be chopping instead.
      • gl77, on 03/31/2008, -1/+6yea not to mention the large picture of an apple hanging on the wall to her right.
      • xtraa, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2this was the birth of the sudo command.

        ">sudo slice apples" seems to have worked.
    • aussieNickuss, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Almost as sexist as the board game that was on here a few weeks ago.
    • Hayaemsay, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Wasn't that battleships?
    • bwinebarger, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Trust me. This still happens and I'm not trying to put a stop to it.
    • tamarindwolf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Hey, thats a fingerbeat reader.
    • AXNJAXN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Looked like he was trading stocks to me.
      • sacherjj, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2He looks like he is looking at a crappy graph in low res graphics. This cheap guy couldn't spend the $500 for a 16k RAM chip to push the high res graphics. What a tool.
        • dougmc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yes, you needed a minimum of 16 KB to use HGR (1).

          However, in 1977 the stock Apple II did only come with 4 KB of memory. Yes, you could increase this to 48 KB, but that more than doubled the price -- from $1398 to $2638. In any event, lots of software used the low res modes, even later when most Apple II's had 48 KB of memory. You got more colors, and you got more memory to use for the rest of your program.
    • AXNJAXN, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2Looked like he was trading stocks to me.
    • BertFegg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7A generation of computer widows is born...
    • eth3l, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Dude - she's chopping vegetables.
    • xDibblerx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11He's not "playing"! He's doing some serious graphing that's going to take his company to the TOP!
    • OffPiste, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3Apple has a long history of sexist ads.
    • AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6This is terrible of me to say, especially because I'm a girl, but I personally wouldn't mind going back to when men were primary providers and women primarily took care of the home and worked to fill spare time. There were fewer arguments about who should do the dishes after both are exhausted from a day at work, tensions high from being wiped out, etc.. Seems like life would be easier and more enjoyable.

      And what woman could complain about having couple hours to herself during the day? What man would complain about a hot dinner on the table and a woman rested up with the energy for sexcapades later? Taking care of a home is work, but it doesn't take 24/7.
      • gerfenstein, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3You'd get along with Ann Coulter.
    • ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2These days Men who play on the computer are without women...
  • willynilly, on 10/10/2007, -16/+66And one year later, it was rendered hopelessly outdated, as Atari introduced a computer with graphics and sound co-processors, S-video output, and... lower-case letters.
    • espire, on 10/10/2007, -3/+122WHAT ARE THESE LOWER CASE LETTERS OF WHICH YOU SPEAK

      I HAVE NO NEED FOR THEM
    • Bleue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18I suppose that explains why the apple II was so incredibly unsuccessful, and the atari 800 was so wildly incredibly successful... Sarcasm BTW.

      The really ironic thing is that apple was got bitten themselves years later when the mac, though clearly a superior machine with a superior OS, got completely outsold by IBM OC and their clones. Tech specs do not a hit make...
    • astrosmash, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Actually, the Atari 800 was released 2 1/2 years after the Apple II, and 6 months after the Apple II+. It shipped with only 8k of RAM at a time when the Apple II+ shipped with 48k, and its disk drives were slow and clunky compared to the Apple II's. It failed in the marketplace due to its limited expandability and lack of standard RS-232 serial and parallel ports which prevented the use of standard printer, modem, and other peripherals.
      • krebcycle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7And the lack of support by software developers; there was a huge wellspring of people building for Apple II (and II+ and IIe, and later the Commodore series).
      • lordmike, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4Perhaps... but it was a VASTLY superior machine in almost every respect... the Atari machines were way ahead of their time... but they were expensive... cheaper than Apple's, surely, but overpriced for the home market... they were also relatively closed machines...

        BTW, the non-standard serial port (the SIO port) was the forerunner to USB...

        A great machine... I still use my 1200XL today.
      • astrosmash, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I always wondered why Atari didn't do better. They always had great graphics capabilities, but hardly anyone used them.

        Take the Commodore 64. It had essentially the same strengths and limitations as the Atari 400/800, was released 2 years after the Atari, yet it ruled the 80s home PC market, along with the Apple II, whereas Atari computers barely made a dent (at least in my neck of the woods).
    • BrokenCircle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Quote:
      And one year later, it was rendered hopelessly outdated, as Atari introduced a computer with graphics and sound co-processors, S-video output, and... lower-case letters.

      The Apple II or the Woman?
    • Billions, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Except that you're not really accurate in that timeline, and there was no 'S-Video' output... You're getting amazingly dugg-up for being WRONG
      • lordmike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Umm... yes there was s-video... read the specs... the monitor output supported true s-video...
        • Billions, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You are correct; I am in error. I wanted to explain that I was thinking of the 'S-Video' connector we all think of today, the standard 4-pin... It is true the 800 supported y/c output, the "seperation" ("S-Video") of luminance and chrominance, but I never thought of it as 's-video' as I tend to think of that as the 'plug standard we've all seen for the last 10 years, when in reality, while the 800 used a proprietary connector, it still was 's-video.' Sorry about the confusion. I did like that computer, it had some nice commands available in BASIC, such as the ability to detect what color your sprite was hitting, allowing for easier game writing in BASIC than my Apple ][+ was...
  • wackymacs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Apple did do ads showing the women using the computers too:

    http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/Simplicity2.gif
    • benitojuarez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+62No, she's actually asking how she can use this new contraption to chop onions.
    • KMye, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13is that the same woman?
      • nontitle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6yes she is, and so is the man.
        • digigeek, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18The man is also the same woman?
        • capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Of course, he's also the grandfather and niece at the same time. It's called time travel n00b.
          • Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I thought Time Machine comes out in the next OS X version?
      • edlowe0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i think it's the same orage coffee cup, too. Apple must have had a crap marketing budget. Or orange cups were all the rage.
    • Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Well, obviously her curiosity was peaked in the first ad and now he is explaining that ***** to her.

      (god im all suppressed laughs and giggling at work people must think I am insane)
    • pr1me4, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4She's not even paying attention is about to lose Brick-Breaker because she's too busy talking to her boyfriend.
    • KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Whats up with their strange red plastic china? Its kind of freaky.
  • 10goto10, on 10/10/2007, -2/+73He kinda looks like he's thinking "This long key, it is a beautiful one... I caress you, long key, and maybe later on push you..."

    Doesn't he?
    • MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12He is probably thinking, "When is Kevin Rose going to release digg?"
      • citrusfizz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4funny thing is kevin was prolly not even born yet
    • mdeppi01, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Is it just me or is there a Macbook Pro sitting on the kitchen counter?
    • slickhare, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Long key is LOOOOOOOOOOONG
  • CiDaemon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Check it out--on the screen is printed "Dow Jones industrial Average"....and the number, although I can't read it well, has only three digits...? What trickery is this?!
  • shorty9, on 10/10/2007, -18/+2The BEST PC ever - Apple ][e. They never made them better after that. The entire computer inside the keyboard. Genius.
    More Computer Nostalgia: http://m.hooqs.com/oneclip.asp?id=21783
    • raptordrew, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Never seen a *new* computer with the entire thing inside the keyboard?
    • sacherjj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I boot up my Apple IIe on my Treo 700p every now and then. It was how I got my start, but still hard to call it the best PC ever.
  • shorty9, on 10/10/2007, -12/+5Stupid me! Here is the link. Sorry:
    http://www.hooqs.com/arcade-and-computer-games-nostalgy/17021,12480
  • coffee200am, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37They're not married!!! I see no ring on his finger....
    • Stradenko, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Sinners.
    • sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Doesn't matter, rings don't plug holes.
    • orb_nsc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Do you think she'd really marry some computer nerd?? She's just there for the free strawberries.
  • MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Finally!!!
  • ripstuntz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Ahhh the good ol days where women spent all day in the kitchen.
    • truNWA, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I like today better, my woman spends all day in the bed.
      • StephenCIreland, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10the blowup variety dont count
        • sacherjj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3What do you have against my air mattress? I like it better than a regular bed!
    • cyberwarriorx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3What's funny is now a days I find most of us guys know more about cooking than most women do. It's like after the stereotypes hit their peak all the sudden people decided it wasn't important to teach their daughters how to cook anymore.
  • MikeMigs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32Does it come with Oregon Trail? or Math Blaster?
    • capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1dude, like I can so add now. Pretty soon I'ma move outa my parents basement, like whatever. lulz. 45+10 = 72. Awswome!
    • andy3109, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2Digg me down, digg me down digg down digg down. Digg me down dig me down down down.
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    • tito184, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Everyone knows it came with Word Munchers.
  • joe90210, on 10/10/2007, -35/+4why do people digg this crap up? it's a ***** 30 year old ad
    • a1532b, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Maybe because this is a technology website and people here like to see just how far we've come in 30 years?
    • xtmno3, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Because these are the same people that actually enjoy and open forwards from their mothers as well as random attachments in emails. Welcome to interacting with the general public (and 12 year olds en masse).
    • sacherjj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Which brings back memories for those of us over 30 years old. Your handle has 90210 in it! Come on! And you call us lame.
      • horscategorie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1But it's so clever because joe rhymes with 90210...wait, that's still lame.
  • eq2s, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Don't get too carried away with a creative description.
  • Mudcrutch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Nice curtains.
  • jeuhrn, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Those are the curtains I've been looking for... and that turtleneck.
  • gwhardyiv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Check out the turtleneck. Wonder if Jobs was working wardrobe at the photo shoot.
  • DeadFox1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4She's not washing dishes. she's obviously chopping up tomatoes under the big black block of death.
  • AmusedToDeath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24The guy looks like he just said "Honey, I keep pushing the buttons but all I get on screen is a bunch of jagged lines!" And he's probably thinking "Boy I wish I could watch porn on this thing instead of going to that theater downtown in my raincoat."
  • indyGuy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Woo hoo! I learned to program in BASIC on one of those!
    • jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Al Gore used it to invent the Internet, so there.
  • milkid7, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3That guy looks just like Bobby Flay...
  • FredoBerfil, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11That turtleneck would give John McCain a homophobic tantrum.
  • slapded, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3maybe it is a robot wife, named apple II
  • sonaboy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11So easy, even a caveman wearing a turtleneck can use it.
  • schoate09, on 10/10/2007, -13/+1Buried as lame.
  • IronDonut, on 10/10/2007, -10/+9This is the way it should be; the woman doing dishes. Gives me a chill down my spine. It's so right.
    • thepxc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Somehow you seemed just a little too earnest for me to Digg you up on that one...
  • RexxHavoc, on 10/10/2007, -13/+0what is there to Digg about scanning an old magazine ad?

    oh yeah I found out earlier that I'm not a geek due to not being able to spot the ***** enterprise amongst the furniture
    • sacherjj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Don't worry, you have proved your non-geekness yet again. Perhaps you can get the trifecta later today.
  • Dou6, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Wonder what those people look like today.
  • darny, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12If this was anything like real life he'd be looking @ ascii porn. Buried for inaccurate.
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    • crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1WTF is that supposed to be?
  • davatron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I digg because I'm a nerd and it's awesome to see how far computers have come over the years.
  • astanhope, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I hope she's preparing a meal from the Weight Watchers 1974 Recipe Card collection:

    http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html

    I'm partial to "Fluffy Mackerel Pudding," myself.
  • MV559er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9There's also a picture of an apple on the wall above the stand mixer.
    • gerran, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The design of those KitchenAid mixers haven't changed in 30 years. Now that's impressive.
  • MrDisco, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6This ad reminds me of the immortal words of Cartman:
    "You get your bitch ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie!"

    Anyone notice the apple poster on the cupboard? Subliminal advertising at its best.
  • MrTeQ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Everyone knows fake charts and graphs == 'Boss Key'
    • tomtucker378, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7He hit the boss key to hide the '70s porn from his wife.
    • sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Not necessary. In the 70's it was hidden behind all the hair.
      "Hey is that a picture of Chewbacca?"
      "Is that Gene Shalit?"
  • Veign, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Check out an old Dell ad (1992)
    http://digg.com/hardware/Dell_Computer_Ad_from_1992

    How far we have come
  • astanhope, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The same two people (with different clothes) appear in the "Simplicity" ad that someone else pasted in above:

    http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/Simplicity2.gif
    • techweenie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1'Simplicty' was the brochure introducing the Apple II. The ad used the same people -- the budget was slim back then.
  • Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Kinda funny the duality that exists here... computers were originally meant to be programmed by the end-user, the duality is that people think that programmers overestimated the average intellect of the average end-user, when in fact they did not, it is 75% of the time only a matter of confidence and an actual desire to learn something that isnt 'really really easy' that holds people back in computing.
  • coit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3She looks like Shelly Duval to me, so I immediately looked to see if he was typing "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy"
    • dopplerdog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1] 10 PRINT "ALL WORK AND NO PLAY ";

      ] 20 PRINT "MAKES JACK A DULL BOY ";

      ] 30 GOTO 10

      ] RUN
  • skaines, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3The huge photo of the apple next to the sink -- a bit subtle.
  • AbeVigoda, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Looks like he's tightening up the graphics.
  • Meursault, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1"I wonder what this big long button here does..."
  • BrokenCircle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Mine didn't have a color screen :(
  • Meursault, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2Just think, only 4 years later the TI-99/4A would arrive and the world would never be the same.
    • orb_nsc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I was a 99er myself, but I really don't think the TI stole any thunder from the Apple II. The Apple had a great software library and lots of hardware, we had Bill Cosby and Parsec.
  • TimidTiger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://www.thoughtdifferent.com/
    This is a collection of screencaps from the apple homepage throughout the years, much better layout than the flickr version.
  • whisperedlie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6"'Morning, dear! What are you doing?"

    "Oh, not much. Eating breakfast, drinking some coffee... getting a little work done ON MY GIGANTIC COMPUTER before I pop into work..."
    • sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4He's trying to download Mr Brady's latest plans.
  • mocharaia, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1wow check out the dow jones industrial average price on the screen...
    • orb_nsc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3How is he getting those Dow Jones figures? This photo doesn't show the massive acoustic coupler with the rotory phone planted on top of it. Plus he probably had to remind his hungry girlfriend/wife not to pick up the phone every 30 seconds.
    • pr5owner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3he entered them in manually to graph the changes
  • supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Nice!
  • chrsgo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8What I find interesting is that Steve Jobs *still* dresses like that guy did 30 years ago. Man, even Apple's adds are wwaaaaaaayyy ahead of their time.
    • heliox, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Or Jobs' clothes are just out of date
  • mstachiw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3And dissonance in marital relationships due to the home computer have continued since.
  • Peabdog, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0"I hope she's preparing a meal from the Weight Watchers 1974 Recipe Card collection"
    Or maybe roast haunch of beaver (http://dowhatnow.typepad.com/do_what_now/2007/08/did-they-type-t.html), roast opossum with Yams Arkansas (http://dowhatnow.typepad.com/do_what_now/2007/08/possum-trot.html), woodchuck in cream (http://dowhatnow.typepad.com/do_what_now/2007/08/i-guess-were-pl.html), or Maryland muskrat (http://dowhatnow.typepad.com/do_what_now/2007/08/muskrat-love-i-.html).
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