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    24-Oct-90  08:48:11
Sb: #7721-Atlanta Fest?
Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)

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and there was my personal favorite, Dave Letterman, in an animated sequence,
throwing a wad of paper at the monitor.

Kevin worked very hard on these demos -- thanks! It should be noted, too, that
one of the demos shown EATS UP an Amiga, but runs nicely on ours and allows you
to flip to another window and do some other work.

We also had a database and wordprocessor there, but, strangely, no one asked
about them ... .

We had some press releases to hand out (we'll get thos posted here!) and sold T
shirts and other things. Zack Sessions helped us out by selling some of our Bob
van der Poel stock, which sold nicely (as did Zack's OS9 games). Incidentally,
one of the demos was Pyramid Solitaire, by Zack, ported by Mike Haaland in
about a day and a half.

Computers were there for preorders, but not for sale, pending FCC Class B
approval, something IMS feels very strongly about, and I think our customers
appreciate it when we say that, for OSK to become mainstream on the MM/1, the
MM/1 has to compete with the big boys, FCC approval and all.

We also put little orange stickers on the lapels of folks who came by and
really liked the MM/1. By the end of Saturday, just about everyone had a
sticker (only some vendors were without, because they had not come over,
especially some folks selling RS-DOS stuff. i am not sure they understood where
all the OS9 interest had come from!

Some people even had several orange stickers.

We had a great time, and BOY, it was tiring -- and exhilirating.

Excellent response.

The next day after the Fest, we had lunch at the Coca Cola headquarters,
courtesy of Newton White, a Fest organizer. Then we hopped over to Georgia Tech
to a fest that included Macs and PS/2s, getting information and insight into
what students want. One popular PS/2 demo was a game of -- get this -- Pyramid
Solitaire. The Windows 3.0 demo seemed dead in comparison. There was also a
MIDI demo on the PS/2.

That's all for now!


The original prototype of the MM/1 went along for some demos. Signetics