{"id":202,"date":"2006-10-02T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2006-10-01T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T01:20:59","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-heavyweight-wrestlers-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/202\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-heavyweight-wrestlers-pc","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> The Heavyweight Wrestler&#8217;s Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/wrestler_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/wrestler_small.jpg\" alt=\"King Kong Bundy with Computer\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Have you ever found yourself wondering, &#8220;What kind of computer is good enough for &#8216;King Kong&#8217; Bundy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, to be quite frank with you out there&#8230;neither have I.  But one of the oldest tricks in marketing is to answer questions that have never been asked, and to offer solutions that you never knew you wanted.  In 1987, not many professional wrestlers knew what personal computers were, and hence, not many knew that they needed them.  But thanks to Bundy&#8217;s brave and noble efforts to educate the wrestling sector about the benefits of accessible computing for the masses, all that changed.  Why, just yesterday I saw Hulk Hogan using a laptop on TV.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve come a long way, baby.<\/p>\n<p><em>[From Family &#038; Home Office Computing, November 1987]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, 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>Have you ever found yourself wondering, &#8220;What kind of computer is good enough for &#8216;King Kong&#8217; Bundy?&#8221; Well, to be quite frank with you out there&#8230;neither have I. But one of the oldest tricks in marketing is to answer questions that have never been asked, and to offer solutions that you never knew you wanted. [&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-202","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\/202","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=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}