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Three-Ring Circus (7/17/98)
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Not one day after we once again bemoaned CompUSA's advertising of Apple systems (which typically ranges all the way from anemic to nonexistent), Reality posts comments from a source who claims the CompUSA rollout of the iMac will be enormous. According to an anonymous source, Apple and CompUSA are working together to make the event one to remember.
Remember the Windows 98 events a few weeks ago, at which people waited in line for a chance to purchase a $98-computer? For the iMac rollout, expect an event that's similarly attention-grabbing. Before that, in a week's time, CompUSA will supposedly announce that customers can pay $250 to reserve an iMac, and also receive $800 worth of rebates on certain peripherals. (Reservations may be important, as a few sources report the nervewracking news that Apple simply may not be able to fulfill the initial demand right away.) The real question is, will this supposed list of iMac-related events and deals show up in CompUSA's circular as a three-inch announcement on page 6, sandwiched between specials on Celeron systems?
Incidentally, the same anonymous source states that most CompUSA's will be receiving demo iMacs within a week or so. For the small percentage of AtAT's viewers who just don't see what all the hype is about, we strongly suggest you check out an iMac in person when the demo models show up at your local store. The difference between seeing one in a photo and actually using one is unbelievable. They're beautiful to see and to touch. The screen is the crispest thing we've seen. And the system runs faster than a Power Macintosh G3 266. All for $1299. The word "revolutionary" gets overrused a lot in the computer world, but once in a great while that adjective fits perfectly. The last time that happened was probably, say, 1984.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/17/98 episode: July 17, 1998: A quick little guess as to what former Disney Online head guy Richard Wolpert is doing next revives a forgotten party game. Meanwhile, Apple and CompUSA secretly meet in smoke-filled rooms to plan the massive ad blitz celebrating the iMac's release, and Yale University seems to have quietly reversed its "no more Macs" policy...
Other scenes from that episode: 862: Oh Yeah: "Interim" (7/17/98) It's time to revive a once-popular pastime that's fallen out of favor in recent months: "Guess the CEO!" Remember several months ago when speculating about who would take the helm at Apple was all the rage? It was practically the national pastime. Remember when things got really out of hand, and people started thinking that Lee Iacocca was going to fill Steve's shoes? Well, that fun little fad all but disappeared as Apple's "interim" CEO continued to kick more and more kiester as time progressed, until we reached our current state of hardly thinking of Steve as an "interim" anything... 864: Choice Prevails (7/17/98) Yalegate seems to have drawn to a relatively quiet-- yet satisfying-- close. When we speak of Yalegate, we are of course talking about the infamous letter sent to Yale's incoming freshman class a few months ago by Daniel Updegrove, who warned that Yale would not support Macs beyond the year 2000, and therefore all students should show up toting Wintels instead...
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