On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 classiccmp_at_crash.com wrote:
> I've been reading Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer lately.
> He's got a reprint of the photo from a TRS-80 Model I ad where a guy is
> using it on the kitchen table, copying some thing down on a pad and
> looking vaguely crazed with a cup of coffee. A woman stands in the
> background behind the kitchen counter, findling a bowl of snacks or
> fruit and gazing fondly at the gent in the foreground - as if proud the
> her man is finally able to purchase an use a microcomputer. Page 171.
I can't remember if it was that ad or an Apple ][ ad (I think it was the
Apple ][ ad) that caused a storm of Feminist backlash (because it depicted
the woman working in the kitchen while the manly man husband computed
away) and so in the next ad they made it more palatable to the female
gendered.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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