ugmiker@cs.buffalo.EDU (Michael (What Am I WOOD??) Reilly) (11/06/87)
HI all....
Well, I could hardly believe it, I was saw the amiga on T.V.
twice in the same half an hour today. Actually, once saw, once
mentioned. There is a game show here in buffalo, from a canadian
station, on at 4:00 pm, (I think) that uses the "Amiga Computer"
to pick out five letter words for contestants to try to pick. I
guess the computer also controls the games board. The game it-
self isn't the greatest,(but then again, how many are :-), but
the M.C. actually mentioned the computer on air, and the amiga
also gets credit at the end of the show....(The name of the show
is LINGO (????).
:-> WAY to go commodore :->
Also, right after that, I switched to another channel (cana-
dian again), and saw an Amiga commercial that riveled some of the
ideas on the net(actually it sounded like alot of the ideas on
the net, from a couple of months back). Here is roughly how it
went:
There is a kid(teenager) sitting at a desk with a computer in
front of him, you see him from the side, so you really don't know
what kind of computer it is.
The Phone rings.....
"Hi .. Jack" the teenager says....
"yeah, I am printing the newsletter from our club right
now on my AMIGA "
"OH, so then I guess you have some free time to talk",
the person(jack) on the other end says..
"Not really, My Amiga multitasks, I am also editing my
video " amiga joe says
"I am putting MY video image on top of some graphics I
made " he continues
----as the screen is shown, and you see a person play-
ing a guitar, and the screen is changing colors..
----plus you also hear some music....
"WOW, and listen to that music!!!! " says jack on the
phone...
and amiga joe replies...
"yeah, four channel stereo Sound !!!!" "try to do all
that on your monochrome mac.. JACK !!!!!! "
CLICK.......dialtone.....
JAck???? hello????
END OF COMMERCIAL.....
Congratulations Commodore, I laughed when I saw the commer-
cial, it was great, I am glad you finally found an ad agency, or
listened to the net.....
T`anks....
mike
p.s. I liked it, I hope I conveyed it well, and didn't make it sound
stupid, it wasn't, it was good....
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Mike Reilly
University of Buffalo Computer Science
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In article <6345@sunybcs.UUCP> ugmiker@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael (What Am I WOOD??) Reilly) writes: > Well, I could hardly believe it, I was saw the amiga on T.V. >[...] > Also, right after that, I switched to another channel (cana- >dian again), and saw an Amiga commercial that rivalled some of the >ideas on the net (actually it sounded like a lot of the ideas on >the net, from a couple of months back). Yes, I just saw it yesterday, and got a strong sense of deBjaA vu. (That should look right if your terminal supports the ISO 6937 8-bit ASCII standard.) It was a lot like the idea posted about the Mac, IBM, and Amiga users in their offices. The only thing missing was a shot of a screen being pulled down (always a jaw-dropper first time). -- -Colin (watmath!ccplumb) Zippy says: The entire CHINESE WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL TEAM all share ONE personality -- and have since BIRTH!!