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Feelin' old...
Bought this on eBay - a tin sign reproduction computer advertisement. Not only do I remember this exact ad ca 1978 or so, I actually owned - and now own another - one of the IMSAI computers in the ad. From the days of iron men and wooden computers - makes me feel old...

They're still in business, selling parts for their old systems.
Anyone else either remember this, or have a similar story to tell? Maybe an old car ad or gun ad or somesuch that has been resurrected as a "quaint curiosity" that you remember from the day?
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
)O(
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Kinda similar look......
They also had the same display at the Harts department store, but I had to divide my time between sporting goods and the toy department............
http://www.frentzandsons.com
I can close my eyes and see where anything in that hardware store is including where they cut window glass to size.
When I was real small, the place next door on Main St was an AMC dealer. I didn't know one car from the next but it was an indoor show room with plate glass windows. I'll never forget it.
It's now a second hand store
Every diner in town had a cigarette machine. Rexall drug had a vacuum tube tester. If you were cool you had Converse All-star hightops (white). The only ice cream truck sold Good Humor brand and the driver was in uniform.
I didn't even know what a computer was in 1978. I thought the tinted lenses in my prescription eye glasses were high tech.
Only time I used it after that was to play Donkey Kong and Gorf........... ''Long live Gorf!""
Mike
N454casull
Now being on the internet Al Gore invented is fine. Typing in line after line of code ZZzzz..........
Two observations recently serve to "twist the knife" for me: (1) At NSA Hq here in MD, they have a museum of past technologies. Outside the museum bldg. is, among other things, an "A" model C-130 with dayglo orange markings called a "Sneaky Pete," crammed full of electronic monitoring gear. Yep, you guessed it: used to be based where I was stationed, in France. IOW, aircraft which were cutting edge technology and highly classified when I was in the service are now museum pieces, displayed almost for comic relief! (2) Saw a new Weatherby rifle catalogue the other day, and noticed that they no longer offer custom rifles quite like my Super grade pride and joy. IOW, even Weatherby no longer makes the kind of Weatherby rifles I prefer, presumably because the market for them has, um, died out. Very sobering realizations indeed. Everything's carbon fiber this and camouflage that.
Sigh...…………………..