Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!ucbcad!ames!mike From: mike@ames.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga and Advertising are mutually exclusive terms, but... Message-ID: <3266@ames.arpa> Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 20:59:20 EST Article-I.D.: ames.3266 Posted: Sat Oct 31 20:59:20 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 02:04:24 EST References: <2834@xanth.UUCP> <2539@cbmvax.UUCP> <278@uwslh.UUCP> Reply-To: mike@ames.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) Distribution: na Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 39 In article <278@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka) writes: >In article <2539@cbmvax.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES) writes: (one man's idea to demonstrate multitasking) >Fade into a screen with three Macintoshes on the left, three Ataris on >the right, and one Amiga in the middle. A voice says something like: >"to run three programs at once, you need three Macintoshes, or three >Ataris, or only ONE Amiga 500." Then add some catchy slogan like, >"why limit yourself to one program at a time?" or so, you know, >elaborate on that. > >Sure, the viewer may say, "what the h*ll does that mean?", but it >would give her/him further motive to go check out the *real* facts, >and he would see that the commercial wasn't lying. The commercial >wouldn't even need to mention the word "multitasking," just the concept. > >Just a thought... > > -Chris As an extention to Chris' ad, you have the "same" software running on the 3 Macs, and STs, such as a bar chart (gag!) program, MacPaint/Neochrome, and perhaps a wordprocessor. Then on the Amy you have DPaint only on the screen. But then as the cymbals crash, and the announcer proclaimes that multitasking is here, we see the DPaint screen yanked down to reveal the Barchart, then that slides down to reveal WPerfect, or some such thing. If you wanted to get slightly corny, you could have one person on the mac bouncing between the 3 machines, while a Amigazoid is doing his thing. Then the Macinphile starts taking notice of the Amiga, goes back to his stuff, gets angry, looks back at the Amiga, and sez "Gee, I wish I could do that!". Then the announcer s sez "But you can, with an Amiga 500." -- *** mike (powered by M&Ms) smithwick *** "ever felt like life was a game, and someone gave you the wrong instruction book?" [discalimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]