[geeks] MS Ad fun...

[Michael A. Turner]

	Reminds me of a Cox at home image in an ad locally from about 2 years
ago. Had happy looking kids clustering around a computer and it spoke of
adding high speed internet to your system. The computer they where
clustering around was an apple ][GS! I told everyone were I worked , a local
ISP, we were in deep Doo Doo if Cox at home tech support was able to hook
computers to their system that ran slower than the data stream coming to
them. I posted that ad in my cubicle for a while I though it was so funny. 

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Hansen [mailto:n2vip at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:37 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: [geeks] MS Ad fun...


MS has an ad in this weeks Infoworld that is too funny, but I need some 
help from the folks here...

The tagline for this ad is:

	"When you think scalability, it's time to think software."

In the ad there is a picture of a datacenter through a window, 
everything is nearly all white, but here are the interesting things to 
note:

	- Far right side of window, there is an XT/AT on top of a rack.

	- On the far left is (what appears to me to be an) Amdek CGA monitor

	- There is a water cooler in the datacenter

	- There appears to be four rack with removeable disk packs, circa 
late 70's

The question is, are those racks full of some sort of removable disks?

MS has another ad of a man at his desk, and there are numerous ques 
placing the photo as being from the mid 80's (external 3 1/2" drive! MS 
Word documentation! etc.)

Am I just missing some grand strategy, or are they trying to use up 
photos from Corbis (?) Mr. Gate's image company...

Ken

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