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Article #31018Re: Atari Advertising Idea
From: David Govett
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1988 23:40
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1988 23:40
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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). Is "Microsoft" a comment on Bill Gates' masculinity?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!octopus!avsd!govett 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 Lines: 36