{"id":300,"date":"2007-04-02T08:28:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T13:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/300"},"modified":"2007-04-02T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T03:07:12","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-isaac-asimovs-favorite-color-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/300\/retro-scan-of-the-week-isaac-asimovs-favorite-color-computer","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Isaac Asimov&#8217;s &#8220;Favorite Color Computer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/asimov_trs_1_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/asimov_trs_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Isaac Asimov TRS-80 Color Computer Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Take it from Isaac.  Now you can save $100 on any TRS-80 Color Computer.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see. Texas-Instruments had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/139\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Cosby<\/a>, Commodore had William Shatner, and Atari had Alan Alda.  But did you know that Tandy-Radio Shack&#8217;s computer spokesperson in the early 1980s was science fiction author Isaac Asimov?  I&#8217;ve seen a number of TRS-80 ads featuring him, and he always looks way too happy.  But that was his job.  And I&#8217;ve always loved Asimov&#8217;s sideburns.  It&#8217;s like I&#8217;ve always said: nothing sells a home computer like a hairy man with a joystick.  Take <em>that<\/em>, Commodore.<\/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>Take it from Isaac. Now you can save $100 on any TRS-80 Color Computer. Let&#8217;s see. Texas-Instruments had Bill Cosby, Commodore had William Shatner, and Atari had Alan Alda. But did you know that Tandy-Radio Shack&#8217;s computer spokesperson in the early 1980s was science fiction author Isaac Asimov? I&#8217;ve seen a number of TRS-80 ads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}