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From: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIXPC in the movies!
Summary: Money talks . . . er, views
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Date: 25 Mar 89 19:52:30 GMT
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In article <545@argon.UUCP> ebh@argon.UUCP (Ed Horch) writes:
>In article <4531@vpk4.UUCP> hjespers@attcan.UUCP (Hans Jespersen) writes:
>>Apparantly AT&T has an agreement/contract with most of the major
>>movie studios to use AT&T telephone and computer equipment in their shows.
>
>While this may be amusing the first thousand or so times you see it, I
>have to wonder what the actual benefit of this really is.

Can't say for sure if it works, but AT&T is far from alone in this.
When I was at BNR/Northern Telecom one of our marketing folks explained
why NT spend lots of $$$$ to put a DV-1 terminal on JRs secretarys desk
in "Dallas".

If you've never heard of the DV-1, that's because it succeeded just
as well as the 3B1.  No smiley, I'm afraid.

   Steve Simmons         Just another midwestern boy
   scs@vax3.iti.org  -- or -- ...!sharkey!itivax!scs
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