1989 - IBM Ad - PS/2 - Computer

[lolfunnycp]

F*** i hate commercials these days, back then commercials weren't crap

[ainazi100]

導入するのは、たいへんそう

[jrocco36]

Looks like a 8570 with the ever popular 8512 vga monitor.. Fixed many many of them back then. these units sold for over 3k. many many of them ran perfectly for years untill the Y2K scare ended their lives. BTW the 8512 monitor would never display full screen.. go figure

[DoReMiForever]

@jrocco36 I have two PS/2 monitors that work like new

[jrocco36]

@DoReMiForever You should post videos of them running.. havent seen one in years. ya see them in older movies now and again.. my wife thinks Im crazy when I say "Hay thats a 8512!" or "8514 ah the good ole days"

Sad that computers are not the same anymore

[atari2600a]

Was that Charlie Chaplin?

[HugoEckener127]

@atari2600a Actually, yes. Before the PS/2, IBM had used Chaplin in advertisements for its computers. With the PS/2, they introduced this new style of advertising, with the jingle and such. Chaplin's image on the screen was included here as a reference of sorts to the previous ads; unfortunately for IBM, though, the new ads made the PS/2 seem unprofessional, and it was fairly unpopular.

[sundhaug92]

@HugoEckener127 A Chaplin look-alike

[trumpetboyclassical]

It's all fun and games until this song gets stuck in your head for four days. Trust me.

[ftrt46hce]

@trumpetboyclassical

Catchy, though.

[windchannel1]

@trumpetboyclassical mee too xD

[jakobat1994]

in the time where IBM was a REAL pc company and had new solutions and ideas

[jason24568]

PS/2 it! (PlayStation 2 it)

[zomgthesoftness]

I actually made a replica of the PS/2 it! as my wallpaper! :D Took forever, but well worth it!

[hokage102364]

and to think IBM is still in business and respected....that takes talent i respect them more now for suriving that aweful commercial....though i must admit it was kind of catchy....

[FarnhamJ07]

For the late 80s, it's not a bad commercial. It looks lame now because...well, it looks old. Obviously in '89 it would've been nice.

[ThunderdomeIX]

@FarnhamJ07 new stuff looks lame

[HellesBringer]

If you were just a little bit smarter you would have been able to recognize how retarded you truelly are.

Barrack HUSSAIN Obama's name shall live on in marble for eons, while yours in sand, peasant!

[misc116]

@HellesBringer gb2 kfc, you dumb nigger

[HellesBringer]

go go gadget you're on my ignore list!

[TechForThought]

i love this ad. Its clever and it highlights the computer well

[spunker88]

Is this where the ps/2 port for mice and keyboards got its name?

[databeer]

Yep. This was the first computer to use the mini-midi ports for the mouse & keyboard.

[douro20]

That's mini-DIN

[terrorzilla]

Yes. It also introduced the 3.5 floppy, VGA, SVGA and XGA graphics to the PC.

[loggeronline]

I had a PS/2. I remember it said it had an MGA monitor.

[ftrt46hce]

@spunker88

Yes.

[ftrt46hce]

@spunker88

Yes.

[sundhaug92]

@spunker88 Yes



[mstcrow5429]

@spunker88 Yes, the PS/2 port was introduced with the failed IBM PS/2 line.

[AIM9XSW]

@spunker88 Yep, that is correct.

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

great things to make are funny

tv adverts because hey can do wonderfull

thing to make them entertaining and funny

i made one titled dr peper 2007 advert

it was actualy an tribute advert and

i did all the cast voices for the advert

but i do love seing and collecting them

it is a passion of mine and they're great.

frankie smales

(retro tv advert fan)

[SkuldChan42]

Cool Ad - funny thing is - even though the PS/2 never took off for a lot of reasons - a good chunk of all the technology it introduced (30/72 pin simms, vga/mcga/xga, ps/2 connectors) were in every pc up until a few years ago.

[jeremieliveun]

Latitude D400 it! xD. Thanks for this movie !

[sorcerio]

This damn commercial has been in my head all these years. Hahaha

[kishkizzle]

Could someone please clarify the first words of the commercial? I find everything before 5 seconds is just impossible to figure out.

[kishkizzle]

re: tiberianfiend

Ya know, playing it again, that's exactly correct. Thanks lol. I thought maybe a second was cut off at the beginning making it sound so...inaudible.

[FutureiMacuser]

aah..I love vintage *sniffs*

[ongchorcool]

i like it

[goobernutz]

makes me wish i was born a brotha! yo. ps/2 biatch!

[dodgechryslersucks]

I used to work on these systems! I always liked them but freakin' microchannel propietary architecture

[wisteela]

Superb. I have a number of PS/2s in my collection.

[mikeabundo]

I'm glad IBM dropped this jingle style. Their comedy sketches are so much better.

[mrgeekwillnotreturn]

LOL i like IBM computers, but i hate the IBM commercials. I saw this ad on an old tape my dad recorded. LOL the tape was about the 41st president George Bush (not today's bush).

[cedemyamaha]

love it

[SMGJohn]

hahaha this got sent to Norway television in 1998 lol NRK 1 the first radio and television that have seent kids show from 6 the clock to 7 clock in around 90 years

[officialmashitup]

lol ps2! really makes me think of the playstation 2.

[mrgeekwillnotreturn]

PlayStation 2 would have been a supercomputer back then!

[tcpnet]

ROFL.. this is not that kinda ps2....

btw playstation 2 sucks...

[officialmashitup]

i know! in 1989 the GPU of a ps2 would of made a mentally performing processor, let alone the processor itself XD

[cds905]

Wow! Is there anything the IBM Personal System/2® can't do!? I hear they can even display 256 colors on the screen!

[hey134]

are u cereal

[DannyMinick]

They've gone to far. It's now WITCHCRAFT!

What's next, a 1MB Harddrive!?!?!?!

[tcpnet]

actually.. next generation computers will have a 1.06mb hard drive.. no joke soo much space.. lol just kidding.

[TheGeek1028]

It would also take about 5 minutes to share a 20 MB file to the person across the hall!

[Futurebobbers]

Whenever there's an IBM ad on TV it's a bunch of guys in a meeting talking about client interfacing, and then the voiceover promises that IBM is best for interlinking your globospherical client interfacing solutions.

At least with this weird business shit ad there's a catchy tune.

[cautionthisissparta]

internet it. firewire it. cd it. floppy it. derr lol jk

[robosale]

hey its kinda catchy!

you cant even do all that shit on modern computers, I am getting a PS/2!

LOL ^_^

[Lumotaku]

Micro shit architecture I remember getting a model 50 and trying to upgrade it. Horrors.

[kodeyboudreau]

why dont you USB it

[TechVideos2566]

ADB it. SCSI it.

[intel80386]

Firewire it. AirPort it.

[kishkizzle]

Can't forget...

MCA it!

[TopGearHater]

kodeyboudreau, USB, come frist out in the late 1997

[piplol2468]

yay i am geting a IBM ps/2 modl 25 brand new never out of the box and i bought it on ebay

[matzellu]

Hi I write from the Italia/Sardegna.

I obviously remember very well this publicity in Italian but the images were the same.

Thanks to whom has proposed her..

[Lumotaku]

wrong polebois the mac was the first computer with the 3.5 inch floppy. You could have had a commdore 64 with a 3.5 inch 1581 in 87.

[jacobdallen]

Mac was also the first one with the 1.44MB floppy. But Windows had a 720K floppy in the 80s.

[TechVideos2566]

Yeah, and Mac beat that with 800K. My old Windows 286 PS/2 still has some 720Ks.

[chucknorris687]

hey "poeleabois," u left out the fact that it also featured vga output? lol

[ScottBrown717]

Damn I remember that ad. I never even knew the PS2 name existed at the time.

[poeleabois]

PS/2 stands for "Personal System/2". It was the first computer to have 3½" floppy drive and mini plugs for keyboard and mouse (now known as PS2 plugs). I own a model 50, with 10 MHz CPU, 20 Mb hard drive and 1 megabyte of memory. Still fun playing Commander Keen 4 on it.

[granthamboy85]

how awsome was keen

[Msdos4]

PS2? LOL!

[dashwarts]

This was before the game system, so it's Sony that deserves the name stealing remarks.

[nomadcowatbk]

@dashwarts

IBM never sued Sony

[dashwarts]

@nomadcowatbk I wasn't implying that there was a lawsuit over the name, I was simply pointing out that the IBM PS/2 came out before the Sony PS2.