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Article #447Re: Interlude (was: Old PC mag ads)
From: si... Kevin J Martin
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 04:37
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 USERGKJ1@RPITSMTS.BITNET -- Kevin Martin si...@pawl.rpi.edu (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean the whole world isn't out to get me)
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!deimos!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!sigma From: si...@pawl.rpi.edu (Kevin J Martin) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Interlude (was: Old PC mag ads) Message-ID: <51}2L$@rpi.edu> Date: 19 Dec 89 04:37:00 GMT References: <126.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> <4029@convex.UUCP> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 46 Posted: Tue Dec 19 05:37:00 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit