1991 Buick Park Avenue & Roadmaster Wagon IBM PC demo disks

Uxwbill just showed the 1990 Macintosh version of "Buick Dimensions". Here is the PC version for the 1991 Park Avenue and Roadmaster Estate Wagon. Unfortunately the disks have long since been overwritten with other data, but the photographic jackets are still impressive to look at. Due to the smaller capacity of the 5¼" 360K disks, they could only fit one model onto each disk. They support CGA, EGA, and VGA graphics and can be used with a mouse.

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• 1990
• 1991
• buick
• gm
• park
• avenue
• ultra
• roadmaster
• estate
• wagon
• ibm
• pc
• floppy
• disk
• diskette
• demo
• programs
• dimensions
• cga
• ega
• vga
• dos
• ms-dos
• 5.25
• 5¼
• inch
• 360k
• version

[bscross32]

i wouldn't have overwritten something like that i mean come on.

[vwestlife]

@bscross32 Then feel free to travel back in time 20 years and tell my dad not to!

[uxwbill]

Those were way cool. Too bad they were overwritten, though I might well have done the same back then. I plan to dig deeper and might even search some Usenet archives...or ask over there.

Also: Web pages that suck?

[vwestlife]

@uxwbill "Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design" by Vincent Flanders & Michael Willis, 1998. It comes with a CD-ROM entitled "Software That Doesn't Suck".

[mikeluscher159]

@vwestlife LOL @ 0:48 , feel free to copy and share with your friends, what happened to "dont copy that floppy"???

[vwestlife]

@mikeluscher159 The idea was to sell cars, not the software, so people copying the disk was free advertising for Buick.

[Ryoga2K]

@daewooparts hope you can copy some of the stuff and upload it that would be awesome although yeah.. I guess you will need some old school stuff (5¼ disks drives and a computer capable of connecting them) xD but it would be awesome nonetheless and much appreciated

[Ryoga2K]

@bscross32 To be honest people wasn't about preserving at that time, it was the nineties, people wanted progress and thought that anything would be old by tomorrow, they never thought these things would actually being appreciated in the future, I think that nowadays we have more of a preservation culture than back in the day.

[mikeluscher159]

@vwestlife good point.....

[hakemon]

Hmm, the Roadmaster. Essentially the Buick version of the Caprice I drive.

[bluenazz]

I think that the Buick Roadmaster was the last rear wheel drive Buick in production. I recall my Dad agonizing over whether he should buy one but he went with the LeSabre instead.

[daewooparts]

@uxwbill all my car mags and brochures are sealed up and preserved ,i got boxes full of them including disk