It made the Walkman look like an iPod

(Via Vintage Ads.)

What?

(Via Vintage Ads.)

Crusader Tobacco!

1960s computer ads

“Burroughs B-220 Computer

This was a vacuum-tube computer with 10,000 44-bit words of core, each containing 10 decimal digits. Core memory was a new technology, replacing drum memory with magnetic cores. This was called Random-Access Memory (RAM) because you could access any word of memory in the same time as any other word.” (Link)

And don’t forget the Burroughs B-205!


(Via Vintage Ads.)

Museum of propaganda: Saving fuel in wartime

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Museum of propaganda: Slave, anyone?

Museum of propaganda: Truth dollars

‘Hand-and-glove with more smoking pleasure’

‘The brightest, hardest, loudest drumstroke you’ve ever heard’

(Via Vintage Ads.)

A nice collection of posters and propaganda

Vintage Ads links to an impressive collection of poster art, ads and some propaganda. This is the nice sort of propaganda, the “teamwork wins” and “drink milk” variety, not “your mother is responsible for killing you.”

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Star Wars bath collection, Atari kiosk

God bless you, Vintage Ads blog.

‘No unpleasant after-taste’

(Via Vintage Ads.)

‘World’s smallest record player’

(Via Vintage Ads.)

Devo LP insert, 1984

(Via Vintage Ads.)

Also appreciated ...

... in the industrial design galleries at MoMA: vintage posters.

Not wild about wartime slave labor, though.

(Via.)

Reminder: Not ALL women are stupid, though they all do smile a lot

This li’l nugget o’ sexism, which ran in the New Yorker on March 29, 1968, is taken from this person’s fantastic vintage magazines collection on Flickr, which reached me via Vintage Ads. I also like this one:

Slash’s mother

Ola Hudson, mother of Saul Hudson, a.k.a. Slash. She designed clothes for rock stars, and dated David Bowie after breaking up with young Slash’s father.

(Via Vintage Ads.)

Rice

(Via Vintage Ads.)

‘Most husbands, nowadays, have stopped beating their wives’

(Via Vintage Ads.)

The Tape of the Stars

(Via Vintage Ads.)