wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (09/22/90)
I have an idea for a NeXT advertisement! (Any NeXT execs listening?) Remember the opening scene of 2001? You have proto-men, the great music, and then LO! the camera pans to a looming black object and the music swells. I'll leave it to you to guess what the black object should be. Bill Gulstad
barry@broxton.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (09/22/90)
In article <118400014@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >I have an idea for a NeXT advertisement! (Any NeXT execs listening?) >Remember the opening scene of 2001? You have proto-men, the great music, >and then LO! the camera pans to a looming black object and the music swells. > Hey, that is a good idea. Or, maybe the could recreate that other scene---have a proto-man banging around on a PC clone, getting frustrated, until finally he flings it high into the air, where it gets photomagically converted into a NeXTStation... -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (09/24/90)
Re: Great idea for a NeXT commercial! In my recollection of 2001, the lunear scene had more impact on me. Several astronauts fly overland to an lunar excavation site, where giant white panels glaring at the object that has been discovered. The astronauts exit their space shuttle, approach, and touch the black obelisk with their gloved fingers. The camera pans back to reveal what has been buried on the moon for a several millenia Your mind can fill in the details.
jcz@britten.unx.sas.com (John Carl Zeigler) (09/27/90)
Part A: In article <61300030@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >Re: Great idea for a NeXT commercial! > >In my recollection of 2001, the lunear scene had more impact on me. . . . Seems to me y'all missed it. Dr. D. Bowman is having trouble with his computer. It only talks in monotone and wont open the door for him. In a fit of pique, he crushes the mouse and rips the SIMMS out. We cut to outside where we pan from the Discovery to follow Dave (in the pod) as he orbits out to find, framed against the backdrop of Jupiter, a large black . . . We then follow Dave as he enters new worlds of sight, sound, and color. Part B: Trivia question for those who may want to know more about what NeXT developments mean to the market: What is the largest electronic device ever built, and why have most hardware vendors ignored it? -- John Carl Zeigler SAS Institute Inc. (919) 677-8000 Manager, UNIX Host R&D PoB 8000, Cary, NC 27512 jcz@unx.sas.com