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- From: prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Commercial
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.225356.7143@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Neuroclinical Trials Center, University of Virginia
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:53:56 GMT
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- In article <C074MM.CJG@ecf.toronto.edu> dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH) writes:
- >At the beginning of Star Trek (broadcast nightly here in Toronto at
- >7:00 pm) IBM had a OS/2 commercial on. The commercial revolves around
- >a pool table with balls being pocketed as the announcer espouses all
- >of OS/2 virtues (ie. true multitasking, GUI etc.). I agree it is
- >attention getting, and I think it is effective in its simplicity.
- >If anyone else has seen the commercial, what do you think?
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- > Bikram Dhaliwal (dhaliwa@civ.toronto.edu)
- > Toronto (dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu)
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- BLEAH! I thought it was TERRIBLE! Typical IBM soft-sell dreary ad.
- Why is it that Apple ads show computers, Microsoft ads show computers,
- but IBM ads show POOL TABLES???? How useless. How typical.
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- -Phil
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