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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Am386 release?
Summary: Advertising CPUs on billboards
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.214347.4129@grebyn.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 21:43:47 GMT
References: <27d84e3c.3f6a@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> <TOM.91Mar11071917@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com>
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In article <TOM.91Mar11071917@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com> tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes:
>I don't know if this constitutes a formal announcement, but there is a
>giant billboard on I-95 not too far from the Boca Raton IBM plant where
>PCs are (or used to be anyway) made. It says something like: "Test drive
>the 1991 model Am386".
>
>I can't recall ever seeing a billboard advertising a CPU chip before
>(although I can imagine it being more common in California than Florida).

There's a billboard along rt 28 between Manassas and Centreville, VA,
advertising the Intel 386, "The Computer Inside".  Rather like the ads
they've been placing in magazines lately, the graffiti-style ads.  I was
surprised to see such a thing.
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