MASH -- or M*A*S*H or M.A.S.H. -- castmembers did a number of commercials for IBM computers in the late 1980s. As this blog post notes, hardly anything seemed to change in their personal dynamics. It's just a different setting. The only main characters missing are Col. Blake (McLean Stevenson), Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) and B.J. (Mike Farrell). Strange. Alan Alda also did commercials in the early 1980s for Atari computers, but soon after, Atari was a shell of its former self and IBM had captured the PC market. Commercials for both types of machines -- plus some other products, all sold by MASH cast -- are at the links above and below. Fortunately, no one has to sing and dance to the awful "How you gonna do it? Gonna PS/2 it!" jingle.
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