{"id":1192,"date":"2016-03-01T13:50:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2016-03-01T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:56:38","slug":"retro-scan-families-love-ibm-ps1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1192\/retro-scan-families-love-ibm-ps1","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> Dogs and Families Love IBM PS\/1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ibm_ps1_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ibm_ps1_small.jpg\" alt=\"IBM PS\/1 IBM PC Dog Family Smithsonian Advertisement Scan - 1991\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Now you&#8217;ll have more time to spend with your dog<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve previously featured a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1146\/retro-scan-of-the-week-ibm-ps1-imagination-system\" target=\"_blank\">later-model IBM PS\/1<\/a> that also happened to be my brother&#8217;s college computer, circa &#8217;94.  But here we see an ad for an early &#8212; if not the first &#8212; model of the PS\/1.  This is back when PS\/1 systems had the OS and a nifty mouse-based GUI program launcher built into ROM.  They also shipped with Prodigy on the hard disk.  I&#8217;m starting to really want one of these for my collection.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Smithsonian, December 1991, p.20-21 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> Has a pet ever done damage to your computer or game system?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you&#8217;ll have more time to spend with your dog I&#8217;ve previously featured a later-model IBM PS\/1 that also happened to be my brother&#8217;s college computer, circa &#8217;94. But here we see an ad for an early &#8212; if not the first &#8212; model of the PS\/1. This is back when PS\/1 systems had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[258,150,1350,132,133,647,347,60,353],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-258","tag-advertisement","tag-computer-history","tag-ibm","tag-ibm-pc","tag-ps1","tag-ps2","tag-retro-scan","tag-smithsonian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}