Bruno Giussani is a writer, the European Director of the 
The editors of Computerworld have gone back to look at 40 years of print issues. They were looking for important stories and people to prepare a special anniversary issue, but they ended up considering the ads -- and, they say, spending a whole news meeting laughing while they were flipping through the pages.
They picked 10. And, indeed, with hindsight they grant some laughter. "80 Mbytes of storage for less than $12,000!" (1977); "What the heck is electronic mail? Simply put, it means high-speed information transportation" (1981); "With WordStar, you have a true screen image of what your printout will look like before you print it!" (1981); and more, including -- image -- a modem that's "maybe even sexy" (1971).
if you are looking for more old hardware stuff, there are these sites:
http://www.thevintageknob.org/
http://www.corememoryproject.com/main.php
http://www.retrothing.com/classic_computing/index.html
http://www.handhelden.com/
Posted by: frankie | June 17, 2007 at 12:36 AM