Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccs009 From: ccs009@ucdavis.UUCP (Capt. Vandervecken) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro,net.jokes,net.flame Subject: Re: Apple's New Image Message-ID: <354@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 21:18:10 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.354 Posted: Thu Jul 11 21:18:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 10:34:29 EDT References: <2784@nsc.UUCP> <1030033@acf4.UUCP> <687@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 44 Xref: watmath net.micro.mac:1999 net.micro:10978 net.jokes:13161 net.flame:11091 > In article <1030033@acf4.UUCP> tsc2597@acf4.UUCP (Sam Chin) writes: > >[...]Apple is seeking new talent > >and has hired a new director of marketing for ts Apple II. He is Michael > >K. Lorelli, formerly a marketeer with International Playtex Inc's tampon > >group (seriously!). > > This should bring about some rather interesting changes in advertising > styles, to wit: > > Mainframe protection from a maxi-processor. > > Software protection you can trust. > > > Other changes will be a counterparts to IBM's Charlie Chaplin, namely Cathy > Rigby & Brenda Vaccaro. Also, new cover art for the Apple IIc has been > commisioned to stress portability -- paintings of women in nighties running > along a beach with a IIc in one hand. > > However, the culmination of this new idealogy will occur in two years, when > Apple plans to come out with the ultimate in engineering and marketing > sophistication: a disposable Macintosh, packed in a cardboard tube. A > notice will be printed on the side of the box warning not to attempt > flushing it down the toilet in areas with low water pressure. > > -------- > > Oh, dear, I bet I get flamed for this.... > > "When in doubt, tell the truth." > Mark Twain > "When in doubt, book 'em." > Steve McGarret, Five-O > > Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer > John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. Jeff, Not bad, and I own an apple ][c. Most Interesting thing I've seen on the net. flame lately. Two points! Dennis Michaels @ U.C. Davis 'Gravity, its not just a good idea, its the Law'