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1984 Alan Alda Atari XL Atari Writer Commercial

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Uploaded by on May 28, 2007

alan alda was tasked to shill for atari XL computers in 1984.

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  • coming to a nerds garage sale near you!

  • wow - too bad that never lasted - if only i could move whole groups of words around on this piece of crap.

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  • Yes, strangely enough, still almost everyone knows what a typewriter is while "Atari Computers" have been almost completely forgotten. Indeed, most children will hardly know what "Atari" even refers to. I mean, I'm 18 and all I know about Atari is something related to arcade games, but other than that? Nothing about "Atari Computers".

  • What's an Atari Computer?

  • LOL!  outofdate.ytmnd.com

  • @pannoni1 On the computer planet the summer blockbuster is Planet of the Typewriters.

  • @Hotshotter3000 Actually, typewriters tried one last stand in the '80s through electronic typewriters, and were even advertised as late as 1990 or so. But the typewriter-computer transition was in full swing at this point.

  • Messing with the Declaration of Independence. Looks like political correctness gone mad.

  • What's an Atari?

  • If you look closely, you can see pac-man slowly eating the words she typed. It was a nice attempt from Atari to broaden it's appeal but they really should have retained focus on gaming. It would have been great to see if Atari could've created a newer console that was competitive with the first generation NES.

  • More proof of Tv brainwashing and a subliminal messages. One thing is for certian, and that is no one is created equal. Some are faster,some are slower,some are stronger,some are weaker,some are smarter, some are dumber, some are tall others short,some are hairy while others bald and the list can go on forever.

  • when atari turned into a workstation profits went dont .....

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