I’ve started to develop a fondness for these older computer adverts. This ‘Apple/Independence Day’ tie-in ad – from the dark days of 1996 when Apple was on the cusp of bankruptcy and Jobs was yet to return – feels comfortingly of that moment.
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The Doctor Shops for a Minicomputer…
And here’s a rather nice pair of Doctor Who-themed adverts for the Prime Computer range of minicomputers. There are so fairly obvious hints that Tom Baker and Lalla Ward are phoning it in but the shoutout to their current – but brief – marriage is rather nice.
A VJ Day Topper in Malton
In spite of what I said previously, this blog’s descent into postbox topper groupie-ism appears to continue.
This time Malton sees a simple – yet effective – topper to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on the 15th of August.
It’s more than a little warm…
…why am I sat in front of a wall of screens?
P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pancake Day!
Halloween Horrors: The Mr Blobby Collection
As it’s halloween then it’s probably time to point out the greatest collection of evil around – The Mr Blobby Collection. It’s an entire site dedicated to the Great Satan himself – Mr Blobby!
Gamera vs. Zigra, 1971
The rather lovely (and incredibly kitschy!) poster for 1971’s Gamera vs. Zigra.
A.I. Channel Hopping
An Early Red Dwarf Trailer
And so I ended up on the VHistory blog where, hidden in one of the sites earlier posts, I came across an early trailer for the first series of Red Dwarf.
Sometimes a Dyke is…
Whist poking around on the BBC Genome website trying to find out the original airdate for Band of Brothers I wandered across this rather surprising warning…
