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Old 01-04-2012
Power Anyone remember this cute unix ad?
It showed a cleaning woman (probably in the evening, after most of the other employees had left work) happily typing commands on a dot matrix terminal (could've been a DEC LA120, IIRC) just because "unix is so easy to use, even a cleaning woman can use it!".

If you know where to find a scanned copy of this ad, or have the magazine in which the ad was published, could you *pleeease* {send,scan and send} it to me? I want to use it as an presentation illustration in a unix/linux system & network administration course that I will give in two weeks.

Regards,
Mathias Båge
Stockholm, Sweden

unix user since early 1987, linux user since 1992
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Old 02-02-2012
Wah, I've never heard of those PC models you mentioned. Have you Youtubed?
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Old 02-02-2012
Oh, darn, I was pretty stressed out when I posted that question, and should've mentioned that it probably was an ad in Byte Magazine or Datamation, was penned with ink in a sketchy mannerism, somewhat reminiscent of the french cartoonist Jean-Marc Reiser (who died in 1983, what a waste... he created one of the funniest cartoons I've ever seen), IIRC.

/Mathias
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