Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!math.ucla.edu!broxton!barry From: barry@broxton.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: advertising idea Message-ID: <393@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Date: 22 Sep 90 08:09:47 GMT References: <118400014@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@MATH.UCLA.EDU Organization: UCLA Dept. of Math, Lines: 21 In article <118400014@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >I have an idea for a NeXT advertisement! (Any NeXT execs listening?) >Remember the opening scene of 2001? You have proto-men, the great music, >and then LO! the camera pans to a looming black object and the music swells. > Hey, that is a good idea. Or, maybe the could recreate that other scene---have a proto-man banging around on a PC clone, getting frustrated, until finally he flings it high into the air, where it gets photomagically converted into a NeXTStation... -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)