{"id":547,"date":"2009-03-02T09:13:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2014-06-17T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:40:32","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-compuserve-borg-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/547\/retro-scan-of-the-week-compuserve-borg-cube","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> CompuServe Borg Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/compuserve_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/compuserve_small.jpg\" alt=\"CompuServe Ad - 1988\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Resistance is futile. (click for full advertisement)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Long-time readers of <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> may recall me talking about my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php?s=compuserve\" target=\"_blank\">adventures on CompuServe<\/a> from time to time.  Needless to say, they never looked like this.  But I did have a few nightmares featuring enormous floating hive-mind spaceships hooked up to my computer when I was 12.<\/p>\n<p>On second thought, maybe this thing is the machine God uses to create snow &#8212; if snow indeed exists.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Compute&#8217;s Gazette for Commodore Users, December 1988 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Star Trek or Star Wars?  Better yet: Han Solo vs. William T. Riker in a knife fight &#8212; who would win?<\/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>Resistance is futile. (click for full advertisement) Long-time readers of VC&#038;G may recall me talking about my adventures on CompuServe from time to time. Needless to say, they never looked like this. But I did have a few nightmares featuring enormous floating hive-mind spaceships hooked up to my computer when I was 12. On second [&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":[181,150,376,860,859,60],"class_list":["post-547","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-181","tag-advertisement","tag-compuserve","tag-compute-gazette","tag-online","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}