{"id":437,"date":"2008-03-10T14:58:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/437"},"modified":"2008-03-10T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T20:11:19","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/437\/retro-scan-of-the-week-shorts","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Hairy Man-Thigh Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/tandyshorts_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/tandyshorts_small.jpg\" alt=\"Tandy 1000 SX Ad - Shorts\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this ad for the Tandy 1000 SX, Radio Shack shamelessly depicts the 1980s version of the &#8220;work in your underwear&#8221; marketing tagline: <em>work in your shorts<\/em>.  Oh, the indecency.  If this guy shows any more leg, it&#8217;s going to cause a scandal.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What if everyone wore shorts while using computers?  Would global economic productivity grind to a halt?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ Scanned from BYTE, July 1987 ]<\/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>In this ad for the Tandy 1000 SX, Radio Shack shamelessly depicts the 1980s version of the &#8220;work in your underwear&#8221; marketing tagline: work in your shorts. Oh, the indecency. If this guy shows any more leg, it&#8217;s going to cause a scandal. Discussion topic of the week: What if everyone wore shorts while using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","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\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}