My favorite old TV ad

chazmo

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Speakin' o' Superbowls, anybody remember the furor created when Apple introduced the Macintosh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

I sure do, Al. I wasn't paying much attention at the time as I was just inducted into the industry here in Massachusetts where minicomputer companies ruled the planet. However, the Mac commercial set the tone for an entire decade (at least) of commercials which followed. My own company, Data General, had a very controversial ad campaign which was dark and war-like, no doubt inspired by Apple's 1984 commercial

 

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It wasn't an ad, but that's not Roseanne's version of the national anthem is it?
I'm afraid to look.

Not even close. It's an ad for Holiday Inn. Believe it or not, something very similar did happen to me but the results were not nearly as startling. Oh, and I was the one surprised, not the one doing the surprising.
 
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