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I recently uncovered a 'dated' Newsweek magazine while cleaning out my shed. It's not what I'd consider 'old-old' but enough so that I had to laugh at some of the things in it like this advertisement for an Ollevetti M20 Personal Computer. I'm not very computer savvy but even I could tell how primitive. So here goes:
The full page ad is titled "Brains and Beauty" and shows a hilariously outdated PC. Here is the description:
If you thought beauty was only skin deep, you haven't seen the Olivetti M20. It combines both brains and beauty and is the most powerful personal computer on the market.The M20 pc incorporates the latest technological advances. A true 16-bit processor. High resolution graphics, and a display that can be divided into 16 different windows. A memory capacity expandable up to 512Kbytes and external disk storage of up to 11 MB.
It's not only supported by it's own powerful operating system PCOS, but also by CP/M 80, CP/M 86 and MSDOS. It's program languages include Microsoft BASIC, CBASIC, and Assembler. The M20 has an extensive application library including electronic work sheets, word processing, data base management, scientific, technical and accounting programs.
:rofl:
Any idea what year this advertisement appeared in Newsweek? Bonus point... what month?
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