{"id":411,"date":"2008-01-07T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/411"},"modified":"2008-01-07T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T00:18:55","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-bill-gates-celebrity-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/411\/retro-scan-of-the-week-bill-gates-celebrity-spokesman","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/billgates_tandy2000_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/billgates_tandy2000_small.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Gates Tandy 2000 Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\">&#8220;We were quite impressed with the speed of the Tandy 2000&#8217;s 80186 processor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In honor of this week&#8217;s Consumer Electronics Show (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cesweb.org\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">CES 2008<\/a>), I&#8217;ve prepared a special <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/category\/regular_features\/retro-scan-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">RSoTW<\/a> that highlights the little-known side career of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,141084-c,ces\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">keynote speaker<\/a>, Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>Product endorsement ads like this one for the Tandy 2000 computer weren&#8217;t unusual for the Gatesmeister back in the early 1980s.  Of course, those were the days before Microsoft was insanely huge, rich, and unstoppable.  I wonder how much he got paid for the gig?<\/p>\n<p>(P.S. Take a look at the early version of Windows featured in the ad!)<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ Scanned from Popular Computing, November 1984 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We were quite impressed with the speed of the Tandy 2000&#8217;s 80186 processor.&#8221; In honor of this week&#8217;s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2008), I&#8217;ve prepared a special RSoTW that highlights the little-known side career of its keynote speaker, Bill Gates. Product endorsement ads like this one for the Tandy 2000 computer weren&#8217;t unusual for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}