{"id":453,"date":"2008-04-22T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/453"},"modified":"2008-11-07T11:10:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T16:10:33","slug":"if-its-good-enough-for-shatner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/453\/if-its-good-enough-for-shatner","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Computer Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,143521\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/shatner.jpg' alt=\"Celebrity computer endorsements article on PC World\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hot off the virtual PC World presses comes my latest volley of vintage nostalgia.  This time I covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,143521\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">celebrity computer endorsements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>William Shatner, Alan Alda, Bill Cosby, Isaac Asimov, and other celebrities promoted certain brands of PCs in the early 1980s, and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,143521\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">PC World slideshow<\/a> surveys the topic well, with eleven scans straight from the vintage source material.  And just to warn you: any references you see to man-boobs came directly from the Great Editors in the Sky, although my original text was no less wacky.  After all, if it&#8217;s good enough for Shatner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the virtual PC World presses comes my latest volley of vintage nostalgia. This time I covered celebrity computer endorsements. William Shatner, Alan Alda, Bill Cosby, Isaac Asimov, and other celebrities promoted certain brands of PCs in the early 1980s, and this PC World slideshow surveys the topic well, with eleven scans straight from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}