[comp.sys.amiga] Amigas and the Olympics

aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan) (09/25/90)

From article <1990Sep21.185503.20284@evax.arl.utexas.edu>, by hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel):
>     OOOOOOOOOOOOOO......... I smell a MAJOR marketing opportunity here.
>  
> "Amiga - Computers for the Olympic Mind"
> "Amiga - Winner of the 1996 Olympics"
> A case story of Mike Sinclair developing the demos in an ad.
> 
>     If we could secure the animations to be done during and FOR the 1996 
> Olympics, the publicity would be invaluble.
> 
>     So what will it be CBM??? Will we drop the ball on this one?? Or will
> Mr. Copperman form a team to secure as much of the Olympics grpahics as 
> possible. (Sounds like a good way to get marketing off of its ___)

I'd watch out for side effects of jumping on the band-waggon - there are a
lot of extremely pissed off countries out here at the moment, to which the 
total sales of Amigas exceeds the US.

It might get to be called the "Coca Cola Computer" if you're not careful.

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