Qix77
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on Wednesday, November, 30, 2005 5:35 AM
For those of you who had computers back in the 80's
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Back in the 80's, there was a company that made 5.25" floppy disks that had the head of an elephant (looked angry) for either their company masscot or just a masscot for their floppy disks.
Do you know the name of the company I'm talking about?
I'm looking for high-rez photos from either old computer magizine ads or what ever and I've been everywhere and can't find the one I'm looking for.
If anyone can remember the name of that company, it'll help.
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on Wednesday, November, 30, 2005 6:10 AM
try this link
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Qix77
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on Wednesday, November, 30, 2005 6:14 AM
You are so super awesome. I've been looking for it all night.
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MutoidMan
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on Wednesday, November, 30, 2005 11:44 AM
Heh, that's pretty cool.
Elephants never forget, so they make a great memory company mascot!
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KiaPurity
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on Wednesday, November, 30, 2005 6:27 PM
LOL
I remember that logo. I still have their disk storage box in the basement. 
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TheJediUnit
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on Wednesday, November, 30, 2005 11:21 PM
This has long been one of my favorite computer advertising mascots.
Sort of had to like it. I love Chaplin's Tramp and my dad was a senior system's engineer for IBM at the time. The actor (actually actress) was a great likeness, and it succeeded giving IBM a warm, approachable identity.
But, it's nothing compared to how impressed I was with the likeness of Stanley and Oliver in the windshield wiper blade commercials back in the 80's. They made about 3 or so, and I can't recall the company who made it. But it was so well done, it was like the two were transported through time. I looked around for an image, but couldn't find one, however...
I THINK these are the impressionists who were in the commericals, standing in for the real articles at a plaque ceremony. For crying out loud, the Laurel look-alike STILL looks like him!
Anyway, I think I've went too far off topic!
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Qix77
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on Thursday, December, 01, 2005 2:44 AM
This one is sort of a personal symbol to me that represents my entry into computers. It was the first blank 5.25" floppy disks I bought on the same day I got my Commodore 64.
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I'm going to print the logo on some CDs when I back up my C64 and Amiga Roms...
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And, of course, the logo to my very first computer.
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Qix77
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on Thursday, December, 01, 2005 5:53 AM
TheJediUnit Wrote:This has long been one of my favorite computer advertising mascots.
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I remember that ad...
What I'd like to collect is some old ad's from old 80's computer gamming magizines... Like when Ultima III was released, and 'Fast Load' was a new thing...
But I did find some old computer ads here:
http://www.aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads
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Kamui
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on Thursday, December, 01, 2005 8:29 AM
*Looks at the old Microsoft ads* I liked their old logo better. It looked much cooler than it does now. Now it kinda looks boring to me. The old one has all these cool spikey things to the text, the strokes weren't all even and was just a little more exciting looking. ^^;;
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KiaPurity
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on Thursday, December, 01, 2005 5:59 PM
www.old-computers.com has them and they're usually under "stupid adverts" because some of them are so silly.
Like, playing on a computer without it being actually plugged in or the graphics does not match the computer's actual performance.
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on Friday, December, 02, 2005 10:49 PM
Wow - Elephant Memory Systems - now THAT brings back memories!
Anyone remember the "thumb rule"?
When I was a kid and the media center teacher was teaching us how to handle floppy discs, we were thought the "thumb rule". Basically it meant you could only hold the disc by the label area between finger and thumb. There - the "thumb rule". For a while I remember thinking that if I held the disc any different, I'd mess up its contents!  
You know - I still have an Elephant Memory Systems disc or two around somewhere, from the days before I had my own computer and just used to use the ones in the media center at school. Good memories - I was a total computer geek back then! Guess not much has changed!
 
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on Friday, December, 02, 2005 11:09 PM
TheReelTodd Wrote:
Anyone remember the "thumb rule"? |
Absolutely. They were very fragile. I remember wondering if touching the disc part really would ruin a disk and,yep,it sure did
Also, on the commodore 64 if you used a (cheap) disk too many times the inner ring would wear down and affect how the disk spun. MANY a great game disk was ruined because I played it too often 
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Boingo_Buzzard
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on Friday, December, 02, 2005 11:13 PM
Also,
I always thought this was a funny "ad"...
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Compucore
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on Friday, December, 02, 2005 11:35 PM
I don't know if this was a popular saying in the states there. But I remember always hear especially for viruses that could be transfered from one computer to another via diskette. was "Don't copy that Floppy." rule.
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Qix77
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on Saturday, December, 03, 2005 10:36 AM
Boingo_Buzzard Wrote:
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I always thought this was a funny "ad"...
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That was really funny... There was another one I saw a long time ago but it was sorta based around country music (it wasn't putting down country folks, but it was funny). If I can find it I'll post it....
Compucore Wrote:I don't know if this was a popular saying in the states there. But I remember always hear especially for viruses that could be transfered from one computer to another via diskette. was "Don't copy that Floppy." rule.
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Awe... the don't-touch-the-exposed-disk-oval-or-you'll-burn-in-hell rule.
I, however, never wore out a floppy disk by simply plaing it many times, but I did wear many out by re-formatting it over and over again. But this is because I couldn't find buget floppies at our local computer stores... and I didn't buy any radio-shack brand (which doesn't count because I think they were rather good).
I am guilty for wearing out a few cassette tapes, though... One I had on tape that I use to play all the time was "James Bond's Diamonds Are Forever"... That was when my disk drive broke and I had to pick up another. Those damn tapes were so damn slow.... but the plus side to having a cassette tape player for a computer is that you could always find cassette tapes...
I use to also have a programable cart... and I had another which you could turn off sprite collisions in games (god mode)... It was like a Game Genie for the C64.
I could go on all day about it....
It's really good to be able to emulate all these old computers on the PC. I thank god for that. It played such an important role throughout child hood to even today.
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Compucore
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on Saturday, December, 03, 2005 9:03 PM
Actually Qixx77 it was in reference to virus that were transmitted from computer to computer at the time and Priacy of software in the early days with the good old floppies that were available that time. I remember hearing about it through the computer chronicals way backwhen Chronicals was a popular tv show for computer geeks.
Qix77 Wrote:Boingo_Buzzard Wrote:
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I always thought this was a funny "ad"...
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That was really funny... There was another one I saw a long time ago but it was sorta based around country music (it wasn't putting down country folks, but it was funny). If I can find it I'll post it....
Compucore Wrote:I don't know if this was a popular saying in the states there. But I remember always hear especially for viruses that could be transfered from one computer to another via diskette. was "Don't copy that Floppy." rule.
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Awe... the don't-touch-the-exposed-disk-oval-or-you'll-burn-in-hell rule.
I, however, never wore out a floppy disk by simply plaing it many times, but I did wear many out by re-formatting it over and over again. But this is because I couldn't find buget floppies at our local computer stores... and I didn't buy any radio-shack brand (which doesn't count because I think they were rather good).
I am guilty for wearing out a few cassette tapes, though... One I had on tape that I use to play all the time was "James Bond's Diamonds Are Forever"... That was when my disk drive broke and I had to pick up another. Those damn tapes were so damn slow.... but the plus side to having a cassette tape player for a computer is that you could always find cassette tapes...
I use to also have a programable cart... and I had another which you could turn off sprite collisions in games (god mode)... It was like a Game Genie for the C64.
I could go on all day about it....
It's really good to be able to emulate all these old computers on the PC. I thank god for that. It played such an important role throughout child hood to even today.
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Qix77
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on Tuesday, December, 06, 2005 8:58 PM
| Compucore Wrote:Actually Qixx77 it was in reference to virus that were transmitted from computer to computer at the time and Priacy of software in the early days with the good old floppies that were available that time. |
Sorry about that, Comp. I got everyone's posts mixed up on my last post...
In fact... I don't remember that saying in my neck of the woods but it could have been used often in the workplace.
Back in thoses days, I heard of viruses but I never gave them much thought till I bought an Amiga... and then a PC.
I do have a question for ya... Could the Odyssey 2000 (I think is was also known as the Odyssey II) be considered a computer? It was mainly a game system but it did have a built in keyboard. I don't know if anyone used the computer feature, but I do know that it was short lived and Magnavox didn't really do a good enough job promoting it.
I also once owned a Texas Insterments computer... which sucked... but I did find it at a yard sell...
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on Tuesday, December, 06, 2005 11:06 PM
Qix77 Wrote:
I do have a question for ya... Could the Odyssey 2000 (I think is was also known as the Odyssey II) be considered a computer? |
Yup. The Atari 2600 had a BASIC ROM you could buy. I always considered that a computer of sorts.
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Which one? The TI99/4A? That one most definitely did not suck. It was my first computer. It had an awesome programming language that did things like CALL SOUND. It made programming games and music super easy. I have very fond memories of the ol' TI99/4A.
You could even hook up an existing tape recorder to it and save programs. You didn't have to buy proprietary hardware. How cool was that?
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Qix77
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on Wednesday, December, 07, 2005 7:36 AM
Boingo_Buzzard Wrote:
Which one? The TI99/4A? That one most definitely did not suck. It was my first computer. It had an awesome programming language that did things like CALL SOUND. It made programming games and music super easy. I have very fond memories of the ol' TI99/4A.
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I'm not sure which model it was, but it was really premature for me to say that it sucked. It's just that I didn't have a good experience with it at the time.
Come to think of it, I might still have it. If I find it, I'll post about it and if you have any information on it, maybe you could tell me about it....
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