Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 09:06

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Hotel California (hotelca@cris.com) wrote:

> Try January 24, 1984.  It was launched with the now famous "See why 1984
> won't be like '1984'" commercial with the woman in shorts and a tank top
> who threw a sledge hammer through the screen that was brainwashing
> everyone into the IBM PC world.  It aired only once, during the Super
> Bowl, as a commercial, but was replayed by different people quite often
> and I believe it won a Clio Award.

It indeed won the Clio Award that year, but it was actually aired 
twice.  The first time it was aired in a teeny weeny town in (I believe) 
South Dakota, in 1983   so as to qualify for the next years Clio. 

--
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is
                indistinguishable from magic."
                                                -Arthur C. Clarke, author
        "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
		indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
                                                               -Anonymous
                       Brad Miller *_ MAC EVANGELIST_*

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