{"id":16420,"date":"2017-05-03T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2018-02-14T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:49:20","slug":"computer-direct-pc-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/03\/computer-direct-pc-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Direct (PC, 1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCompute_PC%2FCompute_PC_01_1987-09&amp;twg_show=Compute_PC_Issue_01_1987_Sep-45.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16421 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Compute_PC_Issue_01_1987_Sep-45-724x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"compute_pc_issue_01_1987_sep-45\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"raindrops-press-this\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCompute_PC%2FCompute_PC_01_1987-09&amp;twg_show=Compute_PC_Issue_01_1987_Sep-45.jpg\">Compute!&#8217;s PC &#8211; Issue Number 1 &#8211; September 1987<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Computer Direct was a popular (at least based on their advertising) mail order computer company. I remember getting some stuff for my Commodore 64 through them (I think that&#8217;s where my printer, monitor and modem came from&#8230;possibly the C64 and 1541-II disk drive as well but I can&#8217;t remember). They sold Commodore, Atari, Apple and PC compatible equipment.<\/p>\n<p>You had to be a little careful ordering from them as their ads weren&#8217;t always specific as to what brand you were getting but I never had a problem getting something I didn&#8217;t want (e.g. the monitor I ordered was a Magnavox). In the ad above, the PC was probably one of the Laser XT models but it is unclear what brand the monitor is. The &#8220;Big Blue&#8221; printer is a thermal printer which isn&#8217;t clear from the ad. But their prices were pretty good and they had a 90 day money back guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>The above ad is from the September 1987 issue of Compute!&#8217;s PC magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Compute!&#8217;s PC &#8211; Issue Number 1 &#8211; September 1987 Computer Direct was a popular (at least based on their advertising) mail order computer company. I remember getting some stuff for my Commodore 64 through them (I think that&#8217;s where my printer, monitor and modem came from&#8230;possibly the C64 and 1541-II disk drive as well but I can&#8217;t remember). They sold Commodore, Atari, Apple and PC compatible equipment. You had to be a little careful ordering from them as their ads weren&#8217;t always specific as to what brand you were getting but I never had a problem getting something I didn&#8217;t want (e.g. the monitor I ordered was a Magnavox). In the ad above, the PC was probably one of the Laser XT models but it is unclear what brand the monitor is. The &#8220;Big Blue&#8221; printer is a thermal printer which isn&#8217;t clear from the ad. But their prices were pretty good and they had a 90 day money back guarantee. The above ad is from the September 1987 issue of Compute!&#8217;s PC magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[68,2592,600,1304,1970],"class_list":["post-16420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-dos","tag-68","tag-computer-direct","tag-dos","tag-pc","tag-xt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}