{"id":629,"date":"2010-01-25T13:32:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2010-01-26T22:33:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T03:33:53","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-victor-borge-specifies-verbatim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/629\/retro-scan-of-the-week-victor-borge-specifies-verbatim","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Borge Specifies Verbatim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/verbatim_borge_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/verbatim_borge_small.jpg\" alt=\"Victor Borge Verbatim Floppy Disk Ad - 1979\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>So that&#8217;s how you write music.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victor_Borge\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Borge<\/a> hawking Verbatim floppy diskettes.  Despite his goofy grandpa-humor presence, &#8220;Specify Verbatim&#8221; still stands as the geekiest slogan in advertising history.  It&#8217;s almost begging for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustedtees.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nerdy hipster t-shirt treatment<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll let you wear it for me.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see more computer ads featuring celebrities, check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/453\" target=\"_blank\">slideshow I did for PC World<\/a> back in April 2008.  Unfortunately all those scans are tiny due to image size limitations PC World had back then.  You can see larger versions of a few ads that were taken from previous Retro Scans here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/202\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/300\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/411\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/139\" target=\"_blank\">4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From BYTE, November 1979, p.25 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Who&#8217;s your favorite celebrity computer or video game spokesman of all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s how you write music. Yes, it&#8217;s Victor Borge hawking Verbatim floppy diskettes. Despite his goofy grandpa-humor presence, &#8220;Specify Verbatim&#8221; still stands as the geekiest slogan in advertising history. It&#8217;s almost begging for the nerdy hipster t-shirt treatment. I&#8217;ll let you wear it for me. If you want to see more computer ads featuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","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\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}