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- From: bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell)
- Subject: Re: No, it ain't dead yet
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:08:03 GMT
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- In <lkhrrjINN1d2@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@pepper.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
-
- [...]
-
- >Commodore got the 64 market by telling people "Why buy a video
- >game when for a bit more money you can get a video game *and* a computer."
- >This works with the Nintendo crowd. Commodore needs to do some focusing
- >here.
-
- This was exactly their point when they advertised the A1200 in a UK Sunday
- newspaper a few weeks back... I thought the way they put it across was quite
- novel (you aren't usually exposed to ads that insist you pay 100 pounds
- more for a product), but hopefully everyone will get the point. :-)
-
- Barry.
-