17 Aug
2007
17 Aug
'07
1:13 p.m.
Does anyone know what the approximate date of this ad
might be?
(Post 1977, certainly, since FORTRAN 77 is mentioned).
I saw this previously, from a non-Youtube source. It was marked 1980.
And the piece is titled "Step into the 80's!". The color scheme
predates the model 2250 iirc, and that was a 1982 model.
I don't know when Prime quit shipping Terminets as consoles. The disk
drive looks like the 80 MB removable pack drive. I believe the 750 CPU
was a dual cabinet model, so this would be one of the smaller three
digit systems.
For whatever trust it has, the Wikipedia article also says it was 1980,
and that the actors are Tom Baker and Lalla Ward. It also includes a
link to another Prime advert on youtube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Computer
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