Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!gargoyle!toby From: toby@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Toby Harness) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro,net.jokes Subject: Re: January 23rd Apple To Announce MacIntosh Office. Message-ID: <310@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 13:13:13 EST Article-I.D.: gargoyle.310 Posted: Mon Jan 21 13:13:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 00:26:38 EST References: <> Reply-To: toby@gargoyle.UUCP (Toby Harness) Distribution: na Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 18 Summary: In article <> 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (S. M. Henning,) writes: >About the time everyone turned the Super Bowl off (2 minutes left >in the 4th quarter and 49ers ahead 38 to 16), Apple had an awful >commercial with blind-folded 3-piece suit types leading each other >off a cliff like lemmings and then announced that on January 23rd >they would announce the MacIntosh Office. What a concept: "We'll replace the 'desktop accessories' with REAL accessories on a REAL desktop....and wait, how about an ACTUAL trash can.... and, get this, a FILE CABINET (expandable to 512 folders)....." (Actually, I thought the commercial was pretty well done, but when they said "MacIntosh Office" the whole room cracked up.) Toby Harness Ogburn/Stouffer Center, University of Chicago ...ihnp4!gargoyle!toby