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Subject:Re: Original Mac user manual From:Phil Stokes <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com> To:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:20:10 +0700
Perhaps not, but I suspect that merely reflects socient in the early 80s.
Regardless of why, white males were almost certainly the majority of potential customers for this product at that time.
Best
Phil
On 25 Aug 2011, at 19:57, Dan Goldstein wrote:
> Lots of pictures of Mac users in the manual, and every single one of
> them is male. I bet no one would make that marketing error in 2011.
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> Aww, if you haven't seen this yet, you're gonna love this!
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>http://www.peterme.com/2007/08/27/thoughts-on-and-pics-of-the-original-m
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