Re: Apple II GS promotion-videos searched

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney) writes...

>On 4 Jun 1998 15:49 -0500, spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
>wrote:
> 
>>    That is about all there was in terms of television ads.
>>As for other promotional material, I have several booklets
>>and phamplets obtained from Apple dealers back in the 80's.
>>One day soon I'm planning to scan them and perhaps put them
>>up on a web-site (that is, assuming that doesn't infringe
>>on any copyright laws). I'm glad I held on to them all these
>>years... :)
> 
>I downloaded a GIF from somewhere of what looks like a two page ad
>from a magazine.  It shows nine 3200 colour pictures, that I have seen
>as separate downloads and probably have all on disk around here
>somewhere, and the caption at the bottom says "You won't believe your
>ears, either."  The right side of the page has a column of text
>describing the capabilities of the IIgs.
> 
>The ad is copyright 1989.

    This is an updated version of the same ad Apple had published
back in 1986. The difference are 16 color images are shown, with
most of them unique to the GS (e.g. angelfish, Paintworks eye,
sax player from dealer demo, PBI's Visualizer software). Also,
the wording is slightly different, they give more importance 
about backwards IIe/IIc compatibility than its Mac-like GUI.

    If you want to see the original ad, pull out the January
1987 issue of Nibble and open it to page 40 and 41. 

>Some of the graphics in that ad are from Rusty and Eddies BBS, if
>anyone remembers them.
>
>The file I have is called "advertisegs.gif" and I downloaded it off
>the net from somewhere but I have no idea where.

    I found it too, it was on the Ground FTP site. I was a little
surprised that Apple would use pictures that had BBS copyrights
and phone numbers still on them, or the incorrect statement that
the GS can use 16 MB of memory (the old ad correctly states 8 MB).
The pictures in the ad were 256 colors, not 3200 (they're shown
displayed in Color+).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca