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Article: Boxing up a mini herd: art put to pasture.(conceptual art project using cow print Gateway computer boxes)(Brief Article)
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- Arts & Activities
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- May 1, 2002
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My South Dakota school district is located just two miles west of Gateway[R] Computer Co. Two miles north of our school is one of the largest cattle companies in the state, and two miles south of the school is Iowa Beef Processors Inc. World Headquarters.
You might wonder what these companies have in common. The last two deal with cattle, so how does Gateway fit in? The box! The pattern printed on Gateway's trademark box is that of a Holstein cow--white with black spots.
Last summer the school was updating some computer hardware. Guess what brand of computers we have in the district? You got it--Gateway. Many of the black-and-white boxes were lined up in ...