{"id":389,"date":"2007-11-12T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2007-11-12T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:36:09","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-hook-a-monitor-not-a-dolphin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/389\/retro-scan-of-the-week-hook-a-monitor-not-a-dolphin","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Fishing for Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Data-Ed<\/a><\/p>\n
Dolphins are losers. Or is it the other way around?<\/p>\n

Welcome to the world’s most bizarre and confusing vintage computer ad. The headline of the ad reads “hook a winner*,” but upon examining further down the page, you’ll notice that the footnote asterisk sits halfway between the words “dolphin” and “winner.”<\/p>\n

So what exactly were they trying to say? “Hook a winner, not a dolphin” or “Hook a winner — like a dolphin”? Either way, who hooks dolphins?<\/p>\n

“Damn, it’s another dolphin; gotta throw him back.”<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

[ From BYTE Magazine, May 1981 ]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dolphins are losers. Or is it the other way around? Welcome to the world’s most bizarre and confusing vintage computer ad. The headline of the ad reads “hook a winner*,” but upon examining further down the page, you’ll notice that the footnote asterisk sits halfway between the words “dolphin” and “winner.” So what exactly were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}