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From: bkuo@girtab.usc.edu (Benjamin Kuo)
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Subject: Re: SNL Mac Commercial Parody
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Date: 18 Feb 91 01:32:36 GMT
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The funny thing about that SNL commercial was that it actually happens. Both
my brother and I used to go to school with *ultra* glossy laser-printed
reports, complete with postscript graphics/page-layout, and everything, and
basically blew anything done with pencil and lined paper away :-)  Even when
it wasn't laser printed, it was using neat fonts and more. Just after the
Mac appeared, in my sixth grade class we had a project to "write and publish
a book"--so everyone handed in standard pen or typed, 8 1/2" x 11" pages
stapled together with a cover, or possibly a neat sewed-cloth cover their
mother did for them.  A few handed in the "very impressive" PC 9-pin dot matrix
reports--but I handed in a 4.5"x5.5", typeset in New York landscape double
sided booklet, complete with graphics done in MacPaint :-)

Now, my little brother occasionally is assigned the new fad in school--making
a video project, and he uses a Mac we have access to to title and direct-output
animation to VHS.

Isn't the Mac fun? By the way, does anyone happen to have videotaped that
SNL commercial?

Benjamin Kuo