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#Amiga Commercials again

    22-Jun-90 12:01:02
Fm: John Bono 75130,1552
To: Thom Cleland 72557,1117
I don't think the artsy type commercial would go good either. What would be better would be a "head to head" commercial–one that takes direct aim at the PC/Mac types, particlular the Macintosh, since the Amiga would most likely be in direct competition with that. One example would be having one guy sitting behind a Mac and another sitting behind an Amiga. All of a sudden their boss runs up and says, "I need the data on the Ericson contract *now* so I can take it with me to Chicago." The two underlings look at each other(both are bucking for a promotion to the same position) savagely and begin working. The guy on the Mac starts to format a floppy and takes his hands off the keyboard, thumbs twiddling. The guy on the Amiga starts to format a disk, then starts a recalc on the spreadsheet. While waiting for the spreadsheet to recalc and the disk to format, he starts up the word processor and writes a report explaining the data. By this time the Mac has finished formatting the disk. The Macintosh exec, feeling the heat, starts to fumble with the mouse trying to use the spreadsheet. By this time the Amigan has imported the data from the spreadsheet into the Wordprocessing document and saved it to disk. The Boss, amazed, says "How did you do this so fast?" Underling #1, beaming, says "Oh, I had a little help from a friend."<fade> "The Businessman's best friend" <fade> "Amiga" John