{"id":530,"date":"2008-12-22T04:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2008-12-21T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T00:39:15","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-a-peachtree-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/530\/retro-scan-of-the-week-a-peachtree-christmas","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> A Peachtree Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/peach_xmas_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/peach_xmas_small.jpg\" alt=\"Peachtree Christmas Ad - 1983\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Click above to see the full advertisement<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of all the Christmas-themed vintage computer ads I&#8217;ve seen, this 25 year-old specimen stands out for its rich, colorful illustration as one of my favorites.  The item for sale in this case is <em>PeachText 5000<\/em>, an otherwise-boring productivity application (from a modern perspective, anyway).  But hey; at least they hired a good illustrator.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;d like to wish everybody out there a Merry Christmas \/ Happy Holidays from <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>.  While being relatively lazy for the next week, I&#8217;m going to take this opportunity to do some serious video game playin&#8217;.  I hope you get the chance to do the same.  <em>Mother 3<\/em>, here I come!<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Personal Computing &#8212;  November 1983 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> It&#8217;s Santa time.  If you could magically (and freely) have any one item for your classic computer or video game collection, what would it be?<\/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>Click above to see the full advertisement Of all the Christmas-themed vintage computer ads I&#8217;ve seen, this 25 year-old specimen stands out for its rich, colorful illustration as one of my favorites. The item for sale in this case is PeachText 5000, an otherwise-boring productivity application (from a modern perspective, anyway). But hey; at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}