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Re: Interlude (was: Old PC mag ads)

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From: si... Kevin J Martin
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 04:37
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In article <4029@convex.UUCP> fors...@convex.com (Charles Forsythe) writes:
>thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) writes:
>>Anyone remember the "sexy" ads that were run in Personal Computing in the
>>early '80s?  As I remember it, the ad had a lady in enticing attire laying
>>on a bed of satin with a white TRS-80 on the bed with her.  The ad was for
>>some "adult" software.  Anybody know what this stuff was?  I thought about
>>ordering it at the time, but never got around to it....
>
>Interlude!  I had almost forgotten!  Interlude was a program that would
>query a man and a woman about their sexual interests; when finished, it
>would suggest an Interlude number.  Most of the numbers referenced a
>description in a booklet (I think this was because if memory limitations,
>not copy protection).  "The Ultimate Interlude" was encoded in the program
>and was only revealed to the truly kinky -- or so the ads claimed.  I recall
>that the program was pretty popular and even got some attention from the
>mainstream media.
>
>I had a chance to flip through the booklet once.  It wasn't very interesting.
>The only "Interlude" I remember suggested spending time brushing your
>partner's hair -- hair brushing, it claimed, was very sensous.  Since I was
>in high school at the time and hair-brushing was something I could actually
>convince my girlfriend to do -- I decided that it must not be that fun; thus,
>I lost interest in finding out anything more about "Interlude".
>
>Of course, there could have been another ad with a sexy woman and a computer,
>but I'd be surprised.
>
>-Charles
>========================
>Send comments/flames to: fors...@convex.com
>Convex does not filter outgoing posts and is not responsible for the contents
>	therein.

I believe the file INTRLUDE.ZIP is available from grape.ecs.clarkson.edu,
and contains a compressed file which has several hundred of the
interludes.  I don't remember if any of them were the ultimate, though.

Kevin Martin
si...@pawl.rpi.edu
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Subject: Re: Interlude (was: Old PC mag ads)
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