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To: Pierre-X who wrote (141)	3/23/1998 3:22:00 PM
From: Jonathan Bird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

I'd be surprised if the name "Intel" ever came up. I'd bet you money none of these people will ask for it by name. What about Pentium? Will that word ever come up? It might as well be synonymous with Intel and it is certainly what's being pushed in the Intel Inside ads. Jon Bird

To: Pierre-X who wrote (141)	3/24/1998 2:16:00 AM
From: Stitch	Respond to of 2025

PX, (You bytehead!) <<Most of the time, these conversations revolve exclusively around numeric metrics, which everyone (thinks) they understand. Megs of DRAM, gigs of disk, Mhz of CPU, inches of monitor ... this kind of thing.>> Now I know why you have a rules of the road for this thread. If you are going to make statements like this you wanna be sure I don't tell you what I REALLY think about the above statement. :) Pierre, you are going to have to go spend some time with...say...my sister. She and family have just bought their first PC. He uses PCs quite a bit at work. But if something goes wrong he calls a staffer to come fix it. And he gets a new PC when someone above him tells him its time. They don't know a mega byte from a troglodyte. EDO is likely to be confused by them for a piece of sushi, RAM is a flavor of condom, and mega Hertz is something that requires stitches. They took HOURS to figure out how to connect with AOL for goodness sakes. They are still not sure they want that "internet thing in this house". Now this isn't Ma and Pa Kettle either. He is a senior man with the Fed and she is an Art historian. He won a Federal employee of the year award recently, presented by Slick himself. She has written several published articles on art, all banged out on a "Brothers" word processor. I don't think they are all that unusual. Maybe a little behind the times, but then, I guess some 60% of American families are also. "Intel Inside" was a cool thing to do IMO. I also think Apple's futuristic super bowl ads were timely. But then, my background is marketing. You know...Chicken Shit to Chicken Salad alchemy. Grinningly Stitch