4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
3:18 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:
But there were some precursors and warnings, even
before IBM got into it,
such as the "serious" renaming of playful company names:
Thinker Toys became Morrow Designs
Kentucky Fried Computer became Northstar
Both probably (in the latter for positive) due to threats of legal action.
Intergalactic Digital Research became Digital Research
Inc.
Really though, Intergalactic is a bit long :)
Parasitic Engineering and Golemics ceased to be
significant players, ...
Those are just weird.
Computer companies hired advertising agencies, instead
of hoky homemade
ads,
I do miss the ads showing computers in the middle of wilderness scenes,
sometimes accompanied by some sexy (or not) vixen in a mini-skirt and
thigh-high boots (or sometimes with nothing at all).
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