{"id":152,"date":"2006-06-26T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2006-07-28T18:53:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:53:46","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-not-so-fast-apple-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/152\/retro-scan-of-the-week-not-so-fast-apple-boy","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Not so fast, Apple Boy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apple_asshole_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apple_asshole_small.jpg\" alt=\"Image Description\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Proving once again that there are indeed morons in the world is this scan from a 1982 Apple IIe sales brochure:<\/p>\n<p>[Interior.  Well-lit office building.] <em>Larry Anderson, Executive Comptroller of B.G. Enterprises, Inc. (stage right), has spent all morning meticulously entering eleven months of raw sales data into AppleWorks on the firm&#8217;s new Apple IIe to plot next year&#8217;s business projections.  Enter Bob R. Stevens III, VP of Corporate Sales (stage left), strolling carefree through the office while humming a tune&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dum-dee doo doo&#8230;hey, what does this button do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*Click* [BEEEEP] *CHUNKA CHUNKA CHUNKA*&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holy mother of $%&#038;*balls, Bob.  I just spent six hours on that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;  &#8220;So I take it that wasn&#8217;t a good sound?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Camera cuts away as we hear the normally reserved Larry punching Bob violently in the face.]<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proving once again that there are indeed morons in the world is this scan from a 1982 Apple IIe sales brochure: [Interior. Well-lit office building.] Larry Anderson, Executive Comptroller of B.G. Enterprises, Inc. (stage right), has spent all morning meticulously entering eleven months of raw sales data into AppleWorks on the firm&#8217;s new Apple IIe [&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-152","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\/152","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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}