{"id":501,"date":"2008-09-15T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T16:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2014-06-17T13:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:42:42","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-murder-with-a-watergun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/501\/retro-scan-of-the-week-murder-with-a-watergun","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> James Bond on CompuServe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/cserve_shirt_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/cserve_shirt_small.jpg\" alt=\"Compuserve T-Shirts - CompuServe Magazine 1995\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The Man with the Golden Gun<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I spent more hours on CompuServe in the early 1990s than I probably should have &#8212; considering it cost something like $4.80 (US) an hour.  But of all the commercial online services at the time, CompuServe&#8217;s combination of history (it had been running since 1969), depth, and variety blew the others out of the water.  I scanned this particular ad from CompuServe Magazine, which &#8212; believe it or not &#8212; was one of my favorite magazines back then.  Ah, the good &#8216;ole days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that CompuServe actually found a member named &#8220;James Bond&#8221; and got him to pose for this advertisement.  He may look harmless, but that gun is filled with <em>instant death acid<\/em>; it&#8217;s one of Q&#8217;s new toys.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From CompuServe Magazine, September 1995 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Did you ever use a commercial online service such as CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL, Delphi, or Q-Link?  Share your memories and your favorites below.<\/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>The Man with the Golden Gun I spent more hours on CompuServe in the early 1990s than I probably should have &#8212; considering it cost something like $4.80 (US) an hour. But of all the commercial online services at the time, CompuServe&#8217;s combination of history (it had been running since 1969), depth, and variety blew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,24,27,26,10],"tags":[151,150,376,861,859,60],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-151","tag-advertisement","tag-compuserve","tag-compuserve-magazine","tag-online","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}