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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: C-A Adverts. in magazines
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Date: 31 May 89 02:09:25 GMT
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I just want some Commodore-Amiga ppl to know that the two latest ads for the
the Amiga are really good.  I prefer the DTP ad., though, because it is more
informative and --dare I say?-- aggressive.  Referencing the Macintosh II as
costing "more than a pretty nice car" when you get a 'loaded' system is
a nice emphasis of the cost advantages of the Amiga.  The (stated) fact that
the entire ad was done on an Amiga running Professional Page with a 2400 DPI
Linotronic 300 laser typesetter is even more effective.  Finally, the example
document on the first page of the ad, the 'Electronic BLACKBOARD', is a nice
piece of lit. in itself.  If someone at Commodore knows anything about the
use of the Amiga to "drive the free-world's largest telescope at Mt. Palomar"
then please share it with us (or me).  All in all, nice advertising.  Now,
why not save the advertising pennies and put the DTP ad in TIME magazine or
the Wall Street Journal or some other 'very widely read magazine'??  Come on,
GO  FOR  IT!  :)
  BTW, the first ad (sound/graphics/multitasking) is in Electronic Musician,
       the second is apparently in Publish magazine (DTP), and I saw both in
       the June Commodore magazine.

Well, now the USENET feed will blow up and I won't see the replies to this --
it's happened before! :(

Baird McIntosh

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