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From: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: New Apple ad campaign
Message-ID: <4031@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 04:30:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 24 04:30:50 1986
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Reply-To: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson)
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Summary: Truth in advertising

In article <835@gould9.UUCP> joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes:

> The ads were basically serious, psuedo-realistic vignettes in which
> a bunch of corporate types produced successful reports using their
> Macintosh.  There were a number of variations -- rogue department purchases
> Macintoshes, individuals bring their own Macintoshes, etc.  It concludes
> generally with the boss saying 'Why can't our regular computers do
> this?' or 'What are they using?', etc.

This is what I call real-life advertising.  A lot of us around here could
double for quasimoto; that daily trudge with Mac-over-shoulder from car
to office / office to car.  Every time I crank out something on the Mac
for co-worker's/boss's consumption, the same "this is great, why can't we
all do this" melody springs to life.  Needless to say, we are rouge
upstarts to the "Information Center" ( the corporate PC people which I
refer to as "The Zenith PC Dealership" ).  You should have seen the look
of fear on their faces when I said we were toying with the idea of
stringing an Appletalk net (actually PhoneNet). :-)
-- 
I have no technical challenges,                              Howard C. Simonson
 just political ones.                ...{dragon,hplabs,ihnp4,nsc}!amdahl!howard

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