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From: rjung@sal11.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Advertising Idea
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Date: 2 Mar 88 18:50:45 GMT
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In article <690@netxcom.UUCP> rkolker@netxcom.UUCP (rich kolker) writes:
>Okay folks at Atari (I know you're out there) here's an idea for ST
>advertising.
>
>In all of the interminable up-close-and-personal features ABC ran during
>the Olympics, there was one on Debi Thomas, figure skater and pre-med
>student using her computer.  Well, look at that, it's an Atari ST
>(looks like a 1040).
>
>Now, this would have been better if Debi had won the gold, but she is
>a role model, not only as a skater but as a student, and if you want
>to show the ST as a serious computer, maybe sell a few to college
>students, she sounds like a perfect spokesperson to me...and she
>already chose the machine!
>
>Just an idea.

	And a darned good one, too. I didn't see the shot you mentioned, but it
sounds good to me.

	Heck, while we're at it, let's get the Pointer Sisters into the act.
If STart magazine is to be bvelieved (why not, they're nice guys), they
loved the ST so much that they were willing to do a "free" promotion of the
machine -- in exchange for an ST and lots of MIDI software...

	(Voiceover): "Debi Thomas on computers..."

	(Debi Thomas): "Training for the Winter Olympics is a
		dedicated effort. I have to spend a lot of my
		time training, and what little time is left goes
		into my school work. That's why my computer
		of choice is the Atari ST..."


						--R.J.
						B-)

P.S. My other idea would be a magazine layout; The first page would be a
copy of Apple's "And now, a computer for the rest of us..." (same fonts,
colors, wording), then you turn the page over and see a Mega...

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