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Celebrity: John Cleese

Year: Mid-1980s

Product: Compaq 386 Desktop PC

Synopsis: Fresh from his 'A Fish Called Wanda' days, the Monty Python legend lets loose his British accent in a rant about how the PC can't possibly live up to its claims. Presumably some reverse-psychology tactic to get you to buy a pre-Windows, MS-DOS machine that had its quirks even back then.


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