Crazy Eddie's gone Computer Crazy!!111

[loverosesbabyv]

Crazy Eddie's went out of business years ago. The owner embezzled money and the company went bankrupt.

[xXDEICIDE216Xx]

Is crazy eddie still in business?

[southport97]

At one time this guy was one of America's most wanted criminals.

[petenice666]

Is that Glenn Beck?

[uofmrules1]

I read about Crazy Eddie.  His business practices were IN-SANE!

[yadabub]

Prices that are INSANE! Is that good or bad?

[MorreskiBear]

Crazy Eddie doesn't sell Colecos. Those things rust like crazy.

[caesar349]

@MorreskiBear Ol' Gil sells stuff that prevents the rusting. as Ralph is learning

[RAYLOWMASTERS]

Looking those slow ass computers and I one once lol

[curt1030]

I need a Xerox brand home computer. Crazy Eddie, you've won my business!

[weeagona]

Crazy Eddie was the largest retail fraud in the world, he fooled wallstreet into thinking

That wallstreet was fooling him

[Darknighte9]

@weeagona

-Masterminds

Right?

[weeagona]

@Darknighte9 lolz right

[AscottW]

this guy reminds me of glenn beck. lolz.

[trousertr0ut]

@AscottW Glenn Beck on aderol. lol

[drummerdug]

OMG...look at those "computers"!" Hahahaha!

[DBR00]

Billy Mays doesn't stand a chance with this guy! This guy wins!

[JBLUVERR2]

this guy is on the most wanted list!!

[Bagatronic]

This dude is so crazy, that he's trying to sell shit from the 80's.

[apauln]

my father hated these commerials... tee hee

[TalksWithDirt]

Crazy Eddie sold me my Commodore 64 that I used in High School and College. Man, the 80's were fun. Good music, good movies, and Crazy Eddie commercials.

[WatchMeShred]

I remember these commercials when I was a kid growing up on Long Island

[xsnrgman]

All true. I was speaking for the brilliant commercials and not the bad business. As far as living goes I'll be living with my parents for the rest of their lives. Then I'll be able to afford to live on my own from the inheritance money. For now it's just wise to save save save! Don't invest any of your money! Keep it in your home and have some in the bank.

[seanandwine]

homedudes in jail

[icemachine79]

I have a strong desire to go out and buy an Atari 800 now. Thanks a lot Crazy Eddie.

[crusher1944]

@icemachine79

[gjc82071]

@icemachine79 Well, although it may prove a little difficult, it is definitely possible (on ebay). I on the other hand, went a totally different route via "emulators". Atari800Win Plus 4.0 is the best Atari 8-bit PC emulator available! It emulates perfectly, the Atari 400,800, XL/XE, & the Atari 5200 VSS, all in 1 emulator! You can even get "Goodsets" (zipped, full, rom sets, with practically every single game (or application) ever made for those systems) Check it out. Very nostalgic/cool.

[xabat77]

I wonder if the iPad is currently in stock at Crazy Eddie. :-)

[gjc82071]

@xabat77 Yea it is, but instead of an iPod 60gb (gigabyte) in a silver metallic case, it's an iPod 60kb (kilobyte) in wood grain veneer finish. {:oD

[GibbedHGR]

This guy should sell Obama's crazy health care bill!

[craftruth2009]

@GibbedHGR Obama and Eddie Antar do have something in common though.... Both are definitely Insane!

[xsnrgman]

They should bring this guy back. Now more than ever we need him again. Especially in a recession. I don't even think he's alive but whatever. There could be someone closely resembling him to fit the part.

[extremevalid]

BRING HIM BACK... Thats INSANE.. This bloke defrauded the american investor out of over 180,000,000 dollars when he floated on the stock exchange.. I may remind you also it took 2 years to track the fucker down costing another couple of million.. "Bring him back" Jesus H Christ no thanks......

[extremevalid]

@extremevalid

By the way the guy in the ad is I think Jerry Carrol, and has nothing to do with the fraudulent activities of the afore mentioned Eddie Antar, to which the stores owe their name

[xsnrgman]

@extremevalid No shit, Sherlock! I already knew that. I was talking about this guy in the commercial and not the person who owned the company. As far as I'm concerned if the guy who owned the company isn't dead by now, then hopefully soon he will be! Not taking anything away from these great commericals, but horrible company. Tyvm!

[gjc82071]

@extremevalid Yea, but today, $180,000,000 is F%#&ing "chump change". The real capitalist crooks don't bother with "millions" anymore. They gotta steal "billions". And now the govt. is bilking the tax payers out of a "trillion" to give to Wall Street thieves. I think if the Crazy Eddie scandal happened today, the government would pity him for stealing so little, & probably "bailout" his stores, & give him a few hundred million bonus.

[gjc82071]

@xsnrgman Hmmm....let's see, A thief that cooked his books & robbed investors out of their money. How about Bernie Madoff? Except for the scale (millions vs billions). Personally I think we have enough "Crazy" thieves on Wall Street as it is. They are the ones that helped caused the damn recession in the 1st place! Any more of them, we will all be living in cardboard boxes & collecting tin cans. (provided there isn't a cardboard box market bubble/melt down & over speculation of tin cans)

[MarsAttacks2035]

Crazy Eddie FTW!!

[gorerilla]

i splash on beats like sauce on spaghetti, putting mc's out of business like i'm crazy eddie

[robertrivasphotos]

this one is for my uncle Aurthur! (by the way those machines got my family computer crazy themselves! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[bamapagedesign]

My dad was a professor in the 80s. We were one of the very few families to have an Apple 2e. I got to play Number Munchers and Oregon Trail whenever I wanted. :p

[WarriorRyan123]

he crazy

[douchebag79]

thats pretty lame

[jjobie]

What is?

[spectrum10]

Did any of those computer have CD drives or did everything use floppies back then?

[patrickguice]

Some did have drives but mostly did have floppy drives 3.5" & 5.25" The drives where nothing by todays standards but neither was the software & graphics. I had an IBM 640XT it had a 10mb hard drive.

[timothysliao]

Are you serious? CD technology did not come into the market in like 1993 or 1994. This commercial is like from 1984

[blasonboy]

lol

[turnkit]

haha... 1982. Even floppy disk drives were like $300 back then. They had CASSETTE TAPE for storage... and 5.25" "floppy" diskettes.

[spectrum10]

I took a course in Turbo Pascal in '87 and we stored our programs on floppies. Do they even make PC's that use floppies anymore?

[Ratbas]

You can get a USB floppy drive for $20-30 (3.5") if you look around.

[rugr2002]

Floppies are dead. I am looking for a new computer myself and I have not seen a computer with a disk drive. Flash drives are so much easier to use.

[traynyc]

Absolutely correct. My parents bought my brother and me a C64 for Xmas, 1982, and, notwithstanding the $600 price tag, it did NOT come with an external floppy disk drive. They were prohibitively expensive in '82, at least to a 13 year-old kid they were. It wasn't until the 1541 disk drive had been out for more than year that the price came down to a point where I was just able to afford one with my meager paper route/life savings.

[Hashwizard]

fuck this brings weird memories lol

[CrabCityKidsTV]

Point well taken.

Actually, the Atari 400 computer with the flat keyboard had only 4k of RAM. If you wanted 8k to 48k of RAM, you bought an Atari 800. None of the 8-bit computers shown here could address a full 64k of RAM.

(Of course, someday, we'll all look back and laugh at our measly 3GB RAM computers!)

[gamewizard]

@CrabCityKidsTV

Incorrect. The Atari's can address a full 64k, they just weren't sold with 64k. How much memory a computer can address is dependent on the processor and the 6502 CPU in the Atari's could do it as proven by the later XL's and XE's that used the same CPU. Aftermarket upgrades could bump the 400 and 800 to 64k and more with bank switching. Technically, the CPU in the VIC 20 can also do it but a memory addressing flaw limits it to about 58k, and yes, they can also be upgraded.

[DrHoldowicz]

Wow, check out the "com-puters" he's got, must be over 64K of memory in those babies!