{"id":363,"date":"2003-04-21T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-21T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=363"},"modified":"2003-04-21T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-21T23:16:00","slug":"time-travelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-04\/363-time-travelling","title":{"rendered":"Time Travelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the copy of an advertisement found in <i>Sports Illustrated<\/i> from May 5, 1986:<\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=\"+2\" COLOR=\"#000088\"><b>WHY COPY ON A FLOPPY?<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<font COLOR=\"#000088\">&nbsp;&nbsp;When you store all your files on floppy disks, problems pile up.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;First, there&#8217;s time. You waste lots of it, transferring data. There&#8217;s space. You sacrifice it to stacks of disks. And then, there&#8217;s your mind. You lose it trying to find lost floppies.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;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.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;With the new NCR PC6, you&#8217;re now protected. The PC6 offers a backup tape drive that insures you against data loss.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#8217;s super fast and super compact. You can backup up a 10MB hard disk in roughly 8 minutes&#151; more tahn an hour faster than with floppies. And one small tape cartridge stores as much as 27 floppy disks.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;What&#8217;s more, the NCR PC6 runs virtually every important software program. It&#8217;s megafast, has high resolution graphics, and is designed to grow as you grow.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;So droppy your floppies. You&#8217;re in better shape with tape. Especially with NCR.<br \/>\n<b>A BETTER PERSONAL COMPUTER. EXACTLY WHAT YOU&#8217;D EXPECT FROM NCR.<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p>And the accompanying picture, aside from an image of the now-pathetic looking PC6, is that of <b>Dom Deluise<\/b> holding a tiny data tape between two fingers on one hand, and a spilling pile of <b>5.25&#8243; floppy disks<\/b> in the other!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you were wondering <b>why I was keeping that magazine<\/b>, it features a &#8220;new story&#8221; by Ernest Hemingway, published 25 years after his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the copy of an advertisement found in Sports Illustrated from May 5, 1986: WHY COPY ON A FLOPPY? &nbsp;&nbsp;When you store all your files on floppy disks, problems pile up. &nbsp;&nbsp;First, there&#8217;s time. You waste lots of it, transferring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-04\/363-time-travelling\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}