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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp last week

Here's a fun advertisement for the "Silver Fox", a computer system sold by Scottsdale Systems.

I am tempted to dial 1-800-FOR-A-FOX and see who answers these days.

Note one particular feature that is called out: "A big return key."

This appeals to me as a consumer. Return keys are too damn small.

#retrocomputing

An advertisement for the "Silver Fox" computer with the tagline "The Quick Silver Fox Jumps Over the Big Blue Dog."  The computer sold fro $1398 in 1984.   Advantages over the stock IBM PC included larger capacity floppy drives and a larger base ram of 256K.
An advertisement for the "Silver Fox" computer with the tagline "The Quick Silver Fox Jumps Over the Big Blue Dog." The computer sold fro $1398 in 1984. Advantages over the stock IBM PC included larger capacity floppy drives and a larger base ram of 256K.
An advertisement for the "Silver Fox" computer with the tagline "The Quick Silver Fox Jumps Over the Big Blue Dog." The computer sold fro $1398 in 1984. Advantages over the stock IBM PC included larger capacity floppy drives and a larger base ram of 256K.
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gloriouscow
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Somehow I completely missed the incredible Dad-pun that is "HAGEN-DOS".

This was a rebranded version of A-OK Software's "DOS-4" that supported the MBC-550's custom 800k floppy format.

https://www.eriscreations.com/sanyo/softsector/softsector_magazine(april_1986).pdf

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gloriouscow
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

My Dad, bless his heart, named his early PC consultancy "DOS-BOOT" support services and I constantly wonder how many people got the joke

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