Re: Apple II TV Commercials?

[nik@netaxs.com (Nik Weidenbacher)]

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).
Don't know how large of a chain the store was, but at least in Cincinatti, OH
the Future Now Shop ran their "Steve and his Dad" Apple ][ ad.  probably
in the mid 80s.  Don't think anyone recorded that one.

nik