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17-Oct-90 22:44:23
Sb: #7478-#Fest
Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
To: Frank Hogg 70310,317 (X)
Frank,
First, I want to apologize to you deeply.
I was told by Kevin Pease and two others that you had neither machine at the
Fest and working. I was told that, instead, you had your KBus systems there,
and as we both know, KBus systems have been around for a while and are in good
use.
I personally did not have a chance to stop by your booth and examine it, and I
should in fact have kept my mouth shut.
However, please recall that I did have several independent sources say that you
had neither system at the Fest, and it was an assumption that was further
reinforced by your comment at our seminar that you were unprepared for the
Fest.
Once again, I am deeply sorry for the error. If anyone who was at the Fest
would kindly upload a report on the TC9 and TC70 that they saw -- running or
not -- at the Fest, I would read it with great interest.
In the future, I know I can trust you to spot these errors on my part, and I
for one am delighted that so many people got to see your machines at the Fest
-- assuming of course they were there, and I have no way of knowing either way
since I did not get over there. I do wonder how the other folks at the Fest
were so uniformly mistaken?
Can you clear this up?
As for vaporware, please note that we had several demos, games, and windowed
IFF and GIF viewers at our booth, thanks to the hard work of several
developers, who have been using MM/1s since April.
If I used the term vaporware with regard to your system (I don't think I did),
I am sorry -- I certainly understand that your TC70 and TC9 are coming along,
and will be ready sometime soon. I don't call works in progress vaporware. Nor
should you -- we have many works in progress at IMS, including home networking,
WYSIWYG library support, graphics and animation, and so on. When they are
ready, they are ready! They would only be vaporware if we announced them as
shipping and we were lying!
Paul
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