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    13-Oct-90  14:21:27
Sb: #7273-#CoCoFest Report
Fm: Dave Myers 71750,210
To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)

Kevin...VERY glad you could join us at Atlanta! Wish I'd had a moment to
actually meet you, but as you can imagine, I had my hands rather full most of
the time ;-).
  I just wanted to shed a little light on some of your observations about the
'fest. The rationale behind having only ONE seminar room was the avoidance of a
dilemma facing attendees of the Falsoft shows...having a hard choice between
two seminars one is interested in, that happen to be running concurrently (or
overlapping in part). By and large, the feedback I have recieved from the
attendees bore this out to be a popular approach.  I DO agree that some of the
seminars were forced to run a bit short due to these constraints, and next year
we will schedule one or two less seminars in order to relax the scheduling a
bit. At least we knew well enough to avoid putting YOU in the position of
having to run short ...and inciting a riot in the process!
   We too were relatively pleased with the turnout, although we did do a bit
more in the way of advertising than you apparently realize.  We ran 3 months of
ads in Rbow, incessant promo on BBS', got a bit of press in the OSK'er, and did
a 1500-piece direct mailing to known CoCo and/or OS-9 users in the Eastern U.S.
No big deal at this juncture, but I guess I just want to let vendors know that
we DID do everything possible to ensure maximum attendance, given the

   As far as the "loud" P.A....well, what can I say! ;-) I was not aware that
the volume was excessive, but wish that you (or someone) would have mentioned
it if it were. At least we didn't use it to announce picture sessions with
Goober the CoCo Cracker . Ol' Goob was busy enough on his own, anyway.
   If you would like a showguide or three, I do have some left.  If you e-mail
me your address, I'd be happy to mail you one.
   Again, thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you (and all) had a good
time, and hope to meet you there next year! Thanks for joining us!
   Dave Myers CoCoPRO! Products

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