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5. That 1984 commercial blew the minds of creative people working in advertising ...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jan 27, 2014, 09:05 PM

Jan 2014

I was one of them. The day after it ran meetings were called to discuss it. We had copies airmailed to the agency from the production house -- we all wanted to emulate it. It changed advertising forever.

I wouldn't touch a Mac until 1989. My first was a CX II, cost about $3000.00. Dumbest, most wasteful purchase I ever I made.

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