Re: Apple II TV Commercials?

[csess@blaze.trentu.ca (Eric S. Smith: Left-Field Marshal)]

In article <badger.829242522@phylo.life.uiuc.edu>,
Jonathan Badger <badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>shoppa@erich.triumf.ca (Tim Shoppa, x6446) writes:
>
>>The only TV commercials that I remember for Apple II computers featured
>>TV talk show host Dick Cavett (sp?) promoting all the wonderful
>>household and small business things you could use your Apple II for.
>>I would hazard a guess this was from the 1980 to 1982 time period.
>
>Besides those, I'm almost positive there were Apple //c commercials in
>1984 when it was competing head-to-head with the IBM PCjr as a
>"serious" home computer (C64's and Atari 800's weren't seen as
>"serious" for some reason).

Maybe because Atari has strong game-console connotations to most 
people...dunno about the 64, probably marketing.

The //c was pitched (probably in print) as "The first transportable 
computer worth taking anywhere".  With a decent keyboard, a built in 
floppy drive, the ability to hook up to a monitor or TV with nothing more 
than an RCA cable, and a nice handle, it was probably true.

--Eric Smith
(Scooped mine (along with another) out of the university's trash.  The 
 Bio department apparently doesn't share my enthusiasm for these little 
 items...)