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Our good friends at SFSignal have busted out the wayback machine and unearthed this old TV commercial of William Shatner pitching the Commodore VIC-20. Extra credit for mentioning Gorf as a selling point, and for there actually being a time you could buy a decent PC for under $300. Ah, the 1980s, they were a simpler era.

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So much better Neil Higgins | 11/27/07
RE: Video: William Shatner hawking the Commodore VIC-20 Mark W. KaelinTechrepublic Moderator | 11/29/07
TJ! djamieson@... | 11/30/07
RE: Video: William Shatner hawking the Commodore VIC-20 CrowdedCranium | 11/30/07
The $20,000 Pyramid clip was funnier. HypnoToad72 | 12/09/07

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