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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga Commercials
Message-ID: <897@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 06:27:36 EST
Article-I.D.: sugar.897
Posted: Fri Oct 23 06:27:36 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 18:04:11 EST
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: quality?

The Amiga commercial shown at our last user group meeting would make a fine
tape-loop to run at the Amiga booth at a trade show, just to attract attention
so the REAL advertising could be brought to play.

Here's my idea: a variant of the water-cooler one.


Scene. Two management types in an office.

Boss: "Well, Flunky, I need those figures right now."

Flunky: "OK, I'm sure I can borrow one of the computers for a minute."

Flunky runs out the door. Into the next office. The name on the door is
Mac User. Mac is leaning back at his desk reading a copy of MacWorld.

Flunky: "Hey, Mac, you busy?"

Mac: "No, why?"

Flunky: "I need to check some stuff on a spreadsheet."

Mac: "Oh, well you can't do that right now because I'm downloading some
figures from the home office."

Flunky runs into the next office. The sign on the door is Bill Blue. Bill
is leaning back at his desk reading a copy of Byte.

Flunky: "Hey, Bill, you busy?"

Bill: "No, why?"

Flunky: "I need to check some stuff on a spreadsheet.

Bill: "Oh, well, you can't do that right now. I'm printing the new proposal
for BoringCorp."

Flunky runs into the next office. The sign on the door is Amy Jones. Amy is
bent over her Amiga 2000 working with some program.

Flunky: "Oh, I see you're busy, Amy."

Amy: "A little, what's up?"

Flunky: "Well, I need to check some figures on a spreadsheet, but you're using
your computer..."

Amy: "No problem. I was just printing out the BoringCorp sales figures (cut to
upper right corner of screen: spreadsheet), and downloading their projections
from their mainframe (lower left corner of the screen: terminal program), so
I thought I'd catch up on my correspondence (cut to sent of the screen: word
processor). Here, let me pull up another copy of GuruCalc (click-click-pop)."

Amy rolls back away from her desk. Flunky gets to work.
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-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
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