{"id":728,"date":"2010-12-27T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2010-12-27T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T20:02:11","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-diskette-stocking-stuffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/728\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-diskette-stocking-stuffer","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Datalife Holiday Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/datalife_christmas_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/datalife_christmas_small.jpg\" alt=\"Datalife 5.25 Floppy Disk box Christmas Ad - 1983\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>It&#8217;s the Datalife Holiday Pack!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Christmas morning, 1983.  You eagerly run downstairs to the fireplace and notice a stocking stuffed to the brim with goodies.  You dump it out and find ten boxes of Datalife 5.25&#8243; floppy diskettes.<\/p>\n<p>Choose your own Adventure:<\/p>\n<p>a) You are happy because disks are expensive for a kid and you use a personal computer.<\/p>\n<p>b) You&#8217;d rather have candy.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Personal Computing, November 1983, p.82 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What did you get for Christmas this year?  Any gadgets, games, or computer stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Datalife Holiday Pack! It&#8217;s Christmas morning, 1983. You eagerly run downstairs to the fireplace and notice a stocking stuffed to the brim with goodies. You dump it out and find ten boxes of Datalife 5.25&#8243; floppy diskettes. Choose your own Adventure: a) You are happy because disks are expensive for a kid and [&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-728","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\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}