{"id":143,"date":"2006-06-12T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2011-07-21T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:03:56","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-soft-wear-versus-hard-wear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/143\/retro-scan-of-the-week-soft-wear-versus-hard-wear","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;Soft Wear Versus Hard Wear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/bricklin_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/bricklin_small.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Bricklin Shoes Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Move over, Michael Jordan.  Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of the PC&#8217;s original killer app, <em>VisiCalc<\/em>, has something to say about shoes.  And he&#8217;s afraid somebody might steal them.<\/p>\n<p><em>[ Scanned from Time Magazine, September 26th, 1988 ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image in a blog post, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>[<strong>Update: 07\/21\/2011<\/strong>: I asked Dan Bricklin on Twitter how this shoe endorsement deal came about.  Did they approach him?  His answer: &#8220;The ad agency needed a software person, saw a photo of me in the Boston Herald and knew my work and called.&#8221;  He also mentioned that, in addition to Time, the shoe ad ran in Sports Illustrated, and a similar ad ran in the Men&#8217;s section of the New York Times. ]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, Michael Jordan. Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of the PC&#8217;s original killer app, VisiCalc, has something to say about shoes. And he&#8217;s afraid somebody might steal them. [ Scanned from Time Magazine, September 26th, 1988 ] If you use this image in a blog post, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}