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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The New IBM Wonder-Toys
Message-ID: <556@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 22:49:31 EST
Article-I.D.: neoucom.556
Posted: Wed Apr 22 22:49:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 01:49:06 EST
References: <1177@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <1495@cadovax.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Keywords: PC AT XT PS/2 barf aggh ugh
Summary: Usoft windows vs Mac/Amiga & Computer bloopers

In article <1495@cadovax.UUCP>, keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
> 
> What I thought was funny was watching the IBM salesman on 'The Computer
> Show' demonstrate the advantages of the new 3-1/2 inch drive "See, you 
> can put them in your pocket" and being reminded of the Apple guys doing
> that some 3 years ago.
> 


I was watching The Computer Show too via my satellite dish.  I
found the whole IBM demo rather amusing.  I thought it was rather
appropriate that the show started out with Victoria standing in
front of a building that looked rather like the Kremlin.

Well to get to the point, I got the biggest laugh out of the
Microsoft Windows demo, where they mentioned that in about a year,
we'll be able to stack up our windows, rather than tile-ing them
next to each other.-- Like, ummm, that's a real breakthrough.

Unfortunately, the Amiga has only made one solitary appearance on
The Computer Show, and it was when C-A announced PeeCee
compatibility using the Sidecar.  It didn't look good, as somebody
had dropped the Sidecar on the ground on the way to the show, and
it was not operational for the demo-- well, that's live TV fer ya.

My favorite silliness on TCS was Jean Louis Gasse of Apple showing
off the Mac II prototype where in he crashed the machine several
times, and pretended that it was a feature rather than a bug.
Typical Apple marketing fer ya.

My favorite recent goof was the recent premier issue of a computer
magazine that featured a free diskette supposedly with $30 worth of
free software.  There was also an unintended bonus-  the publisher
accicentally bound in 5 pages of Playboy's Miss May centerfold!  I
heard that it was selling like crazy- never mind the free disk.

Bill Mayhew
The Mad Science Torture Dungeon
Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH  44272  USA    phone:  216-325-2511
(wtm@neoucom.UUCP   ...!cbatt!neoucom!wtm)