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From: govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Advertising Idea
Message-ID: <22@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 23:40:43 GMT
References: <690@netxcom.UUCP> <3623@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Ampex Advanced Technology Division, Redwood City, CA
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> 
>   Using Debi Thomas as a spokesperson makes much too much sense (as well as
> being too expensive, eaven at bronze medal prices) for Atari to ever do.
> 
>   This is aside from the misbegotten perception that the computing world is
> too lily white in the eyes of the ad executives to accept a person of color
> as a spokes person (ever wonder why there are no endorsements for the top
> black tennis players?).

Nonsense.  Remember when Mr. T was the spokesman for the Imsai 998800 ?
That was the one with the massively perpendicular architecture.  As I 
recall, it was for hardcore hackers because it used no monitor.  
The OS was Unith 0.3 (written in Lithp).























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