Time Travelling

Here’s the copy of an advertisement found in Sports Illustrated from May 5, 1986:

WHY COPY ON A FLOPPY?
  When you store all your files on floppy disks, problems pile up.
  First, there’s time. You waste lots of it, transferring data. There’s space. You sacrifice it to stacks of disks. And then, there’s your mind. You lose it trying to find lost floppies.
  And if you get sloppy, forget it. A scratch, a cigarette ash or punching the wrong key can cause electronic amnesia, wiping out days of hard work.
  With the new NCR PC6, you’re now protected. The PC6 offers a backup tape drive that insures you against data loss.
  It’s super fast and super compact. You can backup up a 10MB hard disk in roughly 8 minutes— more tahn an hour faster than with floppies. And one small tape cartridge stores as much as 27 floppy disks.
  What’s more, the NCR PC6 runs virtually every important software program. It’s megafast, has high resolution graphics, and is designed to grow as you grow.
  So droppy your floppies. You’re in better shape with tape. Especially with NCR.
A BETTER PERSONAL COMPUTER. EXACTLY WHAT YOU’D EXPECT FROM NCR.

And the accompanying picture, aside from an image of the now-pathetic looking PC6, is that of Dom Deluise holding a tiny data tape between two fingers on one hand, and a spilling pile of 5.25″ floppy disks in the other!

Oh, and in case you were wondering why I was keeping that magazine, it features a “new story” by Ernest Hemingway, published 25 years after his death.