gort@cup.portal.com (george d harrington) (04/03/91)
Has anyone noticed in the advertising for mac available in stores, the particular ad that says "No matter which one you choose, a Macintosh is a Macintosh is a Macintosh", and which shows an LC with a screen with the words "Hotel Description" on it; either the mouse or the keyboard is not connected, since the LC has only one ADB connector. To connect the mouse, it has to be plugged into the keyboard, and the keyboard plugged into the adb port in the rear. Or was this a prototype with 2 adb connectors? Just womdering.
gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) (04/03/91)
In article <40838@cup.portal.com> gort@cup.portal.com (george d harrington) writes: >Has anyone noticed in the advertising... >[discusses how it appears that LC has two adb connectors since mouse] >[isn't plugged into keyboard in the ad] Well, if you look at that self-same ad, you'll see that, with the exception of the cable that comes out of each mouse, there are -no- cables visible. Normally the ADB plug would stick out enough to be visible on each of those keyboards. Nor do you see a monitor cable on that Radius that hooked up to the IIfx. It's pretty common not to have cables visible in ads, except where absolutely necessary (like the mouse). They clutter up the pretty picture. Think about it - if you saw the mess of cables that it takes to hook up, say, a VCR or a Nintendo, would it be quite as attractive? Style over substance - welcome to marketing... -- Jim Gaynor - Systems Analyst 1 + "This is Serious. He is Lost. The Ohio State University ACS-FMS-OCES | We must begin the Search at once." gaynor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu | -Rabbit, from gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu + "The House at Pooh Corner"
rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman) (04/05/91)
In article <1991Apr3.153050.21168@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes: >In article <40838@cup.portal.com> gort@cup.portal.com (george d harrington) writes: Sorry, I didn't see the start of this thread, so if I am covering old ground, excuse me. I saw a great one last night. I was watching a tape sent to us by the Nordic Track people. Imagine this: Executive type sitting at a beautiful wooden desk in an office the size of my living room (wood shelving from floor to ceiling, great view, etc.). Your looking via a quarter view over the left rear corner of the desk as the Exec. types a few keys on his Mac Plus (??, must have spent all his money on the desk), then stands up and you see he is dressed in his EXERCISE TOGS (yeah, right). As he moves to his right (toward the Nordic Track), the camera pans around the back of the desk and you see that there are absolutely NO cables (power cords, anything) attached to the back of the Mac. I can only assume that the Nordic Track is used to power a Nicad charger and the batterys are then inserted into the Mac. My .sig says it all. -- Richard K. Mossman {att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!rkm 415/823-0974 ========================================================================= "I need to put some distance between overkill and me!" -- E. John (1988)
osh@jhereg.osa.com (John M. O'Shaughnessy) (04/06/91)
Another minor advertisement blooper is in the new WordPerfect ad. They show a Macintosh (either a //cx or //ci) with a monitor on top of it. Unfortunately, the feet for the macintosh had been moved to the side (for vertical mounting) and therefore are quite visable in the otherwise impecable photograph. They must not have any real computer users around when they photograph these things... John -- John M. O'Shaughnessy osh@osa.com Open Systems Architects, Inc. Minneapolis, MN
wbrown@beva.bev.lbl.gov (Bill Brown) (04/08/91)
And of course there's the adds that one mail order outfit (Mac Connection)
used to run - a picture of a large tractor-trailer rig with "Mac Truck"
on the trailer in very large letters.
The tractor was a Peterbuilt!
Disclaimer: These opinions are my own and have |
nothing to do with the official policy or the | -bill
management of L.B.L, who probably couldn't | wlbrown@lbl.gov
care less about employees who play with trains. |zinder2500@engin.umich.edu (Michael Robert Attan) (04/17/91)
I seem to be having a small problem with speed on my Mac Classic. For some reason, my mac runs applications noticably slower than either Mac SE's or Mac+'s. I am currently running system 6.0.7 with 2.5 Megs of RAM. The extra .5 meg is from an old SE (128 ns chips, I think) I checked the speed of various applications (Word, Excell, and a couple of games) while running no inits, and my classic crawls in comparison. The only causes of this problem that I could think of are either the old simms, or an error in system 6.0.7 (I know there are errors with the memory manager for the si, lc and ci) Has anyone had any similar speed problems with a classic? I'd rather not take the memory out to see if this is the problem. Is there a way to "shut off" memory? Are there any benchmark programs out there that I can use to get a definative speed check? Any help/comments/ideas would be very welcomed. Thanks in advance, Michael Attan Please send correspondence to zinder2500@aal.itd.umich.edu and I will summarize and repost.