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To: ALTERN8 who wrote (380)	5/2/2003 3:21:40 PM
From: jmhollen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8420

Hey Alt, The thing that really soured me on "..the competition.." was that BS commercial they did where perfectly good musical instruments were dropped from above - smashing to bits on the highway around an 18-wheeler. For all the little kids there are in the US that would like to have a musical instrument just to learn on (..at schools that can't afford student loaners..), that was a despicable example of advertising excess. If some metalhead KISS-wannabe at a rock concert wants to bust up his own stuff (in an adult ticket-paid environment) that's one thing - trashing instruments on TV in front of little kids during prime time is something else. AKA: piss poor judgement. They have recently pulled that el-crappo commercial, which got their CEO an acutely critical phone call from yours truly. That piece of work ranked right up there with Hillary's Medical (W)itch wanting to teach all the public school kids to masturbate properly. The matter is not a corporate operational issue per se (..although the rotten commercial had to be paid for..), but it was indicative of a worm hole on the side of their apple to me. "........GOoooooooooo SIRI...."!!! (Tee hee hee). Regards, John :-) .

To: ALTERN8 who wrote (380)	5/2/2003 3:35:13 PM
From: Michael Hart	Respond to of 8420

Your giv'n me flashbacks. Thnx for product compliment regarding Tron. Hope your doing well in what has become a tougher market than I experienced. Can you believe we used to sell an external ethernet tranceiver for Thicknet ......$800....100's of thousand of them back in mid 80's......cost us about 40 bucks to make...ahhh the good old days of networking... Talk to you more next week....will try SIRI next time a i get next to a CC Be well, Mike