{"id":219,"date":"2006-10-30T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2013-10-31T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:07:33","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-morbid-computer-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/219\/retro-scan-of-the-week-morbid-computer-ad","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Think You&#8217;re Frustrated with Computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/hangman_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/hangman_small.jpg\" alt=\"Frustrated Computer User\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Just in time for Halloween comes this special ultra-morbid computer software ad from 1983.  I&#8217;ll have to admit that I&#8217;ve felt this way about computers myself more than a few times &#8212; especially back in the Windows 98 days.  Luckily I didn&#8217;t go this far, or else I wouldn&#8217;t be here today writing for you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just glad this isn&#8217;t an ad for a computer version of <em>Hangman<\/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>Just in time for Halloween comes this special ultra-morbid computer software ad from 1983. I&#8217;ll have to admit that I&#8217;ve felt this way about computers myself more than a few times &#8212; especially back in the Windows 98 days. Luckily I didn&#8217;t go this far, or else I wouldn&#8217;t be here today writing for you. [&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":[139,150,61,255,644,646,645,60],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","tag-139","tag-advertisement","tag-apple-ii","tag-halloween","tag-hangman","tag-locksmith-5-0","tag-omega-microware","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}