{"id":551,"date":"2009-03-30T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2009-03-30T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:58:09","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-meet-spikemaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/551\/retro-scan-of-the-week-meet-spikemaster","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Meet Spikemaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/spikemaster_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/spikemaster_small.jpg\" alt=\"Spikemaster Surge Suppressor Ad - 1985\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>I smell a potential children&#8217;s cartoon franchise.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s more ridiculous: the fact that the Spikemaster surge suppressor has a humanoid superhero mascot with powers of unknown capacity, or the fact that the company producing the suppressor is named &#8220;Discwasher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I know what I&#8217;m dressing up as this Halloween.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Popular Computing, February 1985 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What do you think Spikemaster&#8217;s superhero powers should 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>I smell a potential children&#8217;s cartoon franchise. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s more ridiculous: the fact that the Spikemaster surge suppressor has a humanoid superhero mascot with powers of unknown capacity, or the fact that the company producing the suppressor is named &#8220;Discwasher.&#8221; Either way, I know what I&#8217;m dressing up as this Halloween. [ 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":[7,24,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","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\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}