Re: Apple II TV Commercials?

[Mike Czaplinski <mike.czaplinski@washingtondc.attgis.com>]

badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) 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).

Yes.  At least one of those //c commercials featured a champion typist
extoling the virtues of the H/W Dvorak keyboard switch.

And though it hardly counts as a commercial in the classic sense, let
us not forget that Roy Scheider used a //c with one of those clunky
LCD screens on the beach in a brief scene in 2010.  One of the first
overt examples of product placement I can recall.

Mike "Well, it must've LOOKED futuristic, anyway..." Czaplinski
mike.czaplinski@washingtondc.attgis.com