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    24-Oct-90  08:35:41
Sb: #7603-#Atlanta Fest?
Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)

Colin,

Well, OK, a report of what was goin on in our OWN booth!

First, we were right next to the guys from Detroit who do Lyra, so we had
musical accompaniment -- and we were right across from the CoCo Pro! booth,
where frequent PA announcements were being made -- made us all feel at home!
All we missed were Lonnie's sales ladies and his fancy wardrobe! 

It was especially nice to see Cray Augsburg and Greg Law, also of Rainbow fame.

At our booth we have five MM/1's (actually we had four later as one went up to
someone's room for something) showing a lot of Mike Haaland's and Kevin
Darling's demos, as well as a slide show viewer for the M/1 by Kevin Pease, our
hardworking hardware designer. The slide show viewer runs from a simple script
file and shows a bunch of GIF images that have been moved to the IFF format,
which IMS believes is the Way To Go for a great deal of work (it is the CD-I
standard, and is used by Amigas and by HUGE software firms like Electronic Arts
-- also, it is the standard accepted by the ANSI Hypermedia committee that IMS
is part of).

Mike Haaland had his version of Tetrix running, and the CoCo Maze program,
screaming by in random colors. There were severalother graphics demos from Mike
that were showing off the library support he has built up from Kevin's drivers.

Also, Kevin showed some Amiga demos he had downloaded and modified for the
MM/1, including an Imperial Walker from Star Wars, firing lasers, Star Trek,
The Next Generation's Enterprise going into hyperspeed in a flash, while the
them song played (and played and played, in beautiful Ives-esque antiphony to
our booth next door) ...



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