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From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why clone the PS/2?
Message-ID: <216100036@trsvax>
Date: 26 May 88 12:58:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!johnm    May 26 07:58:00 1988


>I don't know about the performance of IBM in Europe but they seem to
>be doing fine in a much more local industry, Hollywood.  Has anyone
>besides me noticed that IBM machines are lying on tables and desks
>in most of the recent features.  On TV, I noticed that Head of the Class
>has an IBM PS/2 Model 50?  This only a few weeks after the product 
>came out.  The previous machine was an AT.

I once read an article that told about all of the companies that paid to have
their products show up in television shows and movies as just part of the
(ahem!) "background".  Sometimes this can be really obvious (like the beer in
Clint Eastwood's movie Sudden Impact) or more subtle like the quick appearance
of the Dominoes Pizza driver in some flick recently.

Ten to one IBM not only gave them the machine but is also paying to insure that
it keeps their label on it and it faces the camera.

BTW, have you noticed the Mac that Maddie Hayes has in her office in 
Moonlighting?  You can tell it's never used because there isn't a pile of disks
around it :-)

John Munsch