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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9624)5/13/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: Mike 2.0  Respond to of 62549
 
The only ads I recall with Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character was the IBM PC ads. They were hugely successful, and deserved to be...humanized the computer IMO, hadn't been done yet effectively.

Of course they also used Charlie to sell that hunk of junk they called "PC jr" but that is another story :-)