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From: yuan@uhccux.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga's Enemy: Another View
Message-ID: <489@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 04:58:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: uhccux.489
Posted: Fri May 15 04:58:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 14:36:51 EDT
References: <487@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1757@vax135.UUCP>
Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan Chang)
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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Summary: StarTrek Commercials?

In article <1757@vax135.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes:
>I think Commodore and some software companies like Electronic Arts
>should co-sponsor a series of spots just showing off particular software
>products.  Or at least Amiga + some public-domain graphics-razzle-dazzle
>programs.  You can't sell an Amiga just by showing pictures of a
>Workbench, after all!  Especially not still pictures.  I would avoid
>print advertising altogether.  Amiga has to be on TV to make its point.

     Yeah, Amiga really needs some _decent_ advertising.  I was just 
leafing through a _very_ old issue of Personal Computing (Jan '82, to be
exact), and there was a Commodore ad (selling PET computers.  Wouldn't you
know it?) which has William Shaftner promoting it.  Now if Commodore had
Shaftner promoting the PET, why not the Amiga (which is a _much_ better
computer, of course!)?  Better yet, the whole StarTrek crew (like somebody
suggested a while back.  My appology to whomever came up with that neat
script for a "commercial").  Imagine, the PET got more advertising than the
Amiga.....
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