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What a fantastic break in technology! Based on Tubes this calculator must be one of the first digital ever!!
http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/

Don’t know exactly why this monkey does that, maybe a commercial of some kind from The good old days

This russian site has a great collection of music video’s from the 80’s

Among alot of others : A-ha, Opus, ABBA , Europe, Ottawan, Alphaville, Pet Shop Boys, Samantha Fox, Sabrina, Sandra, Bananarama, Kim Wilde, KISS, Smokie, Modern Talking, Michael Jackson, Dire Straits

While browsing through an old magazine this page came up, and couldn’t resist posting it
For you who do not speak fluently Norwegian, a short translation is below the picture.

“Professional” - Video rental with EDB (electronic data processing)
* Commodore SX 64 computer with build in colour screen and disk-drive
* MPS 801 printer with 50 char pr sek and printing width 80 char.
* Software

All this for only 12000 NOK (excl. taxes) [roughly 1850 US $]

* Speedy registration of rental with easy management
* Customer receipt for films
* Control with late deliveries
* Overview of who has rented that film
* Complete registers of customers and films, sorted both numeric and alphanumeric
* Statistics by month
* Top 10 and bottom 10 list of films.
* Producer list
* Search enabled for customer number, name and film number.
* Prepared for barcode pen / barcode

Can you resist this treat?

source : Hjemmedata nr 3.1985