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- From: taft@adobe.com (Ed Taft)
- Subject: Re: 1960's vintage advertisements (was: 1960 Bernoulli Disk Drive)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.192239.18666@adobe.com>
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- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:22:39 GMT
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- In article <jcmorris.722283055@mwunix> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe
- Morris) writes:
- >
- >OTOH, there were some really beautiful ads back then. One of the most
- >popular -- to the point that many readers cut them out and posted them
- >on office walls -- were from Honeywell. Some artist would take
- >computer components -- wires, resistors, circuit boards, and whatever
- >else came to hand -- and used them to create extremely well-done
- >animal figures.
-
- The Computer Museum in Boston has a collection of the original
- Honeywell animal sculptures, which were on display last time I
- visited. Well worth seeing.
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- Ed Taft taft@adobe.com ...decwrl!adobe!taft
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