At 6:40 AM -0600 5/24/99, Ron Seybold wrote:

>I did some checking at the Executive Forum Web site
>(http://www.theexecutiveforum.com) and learned that this program will be
>aired in front of 54 million US homes (not to mention the satellite
>opportunities). That sounds like a broader reach than HP has planned for
>its 3000 messages this year. Was this appearance an HP intitiative, or
>something more grass-roots?

I was invited to participate in the show and I took advantage of the
opportunity.  I had to radically change the scheduling of my
responsibilities and my regular Adager development routine was set back by
about 2 weeks (not to mention family activities and other worthwhile
items).  Nevertheless, given the fact that the potential benefits to the
HP3000 and IMAGE were of a significant enough magnitude, I packed my bags
and flew to New York.  The worst part of the whole thing was that I had to
buy a jacket and a tie to comply with the show's silly "business" dress
code...   Arghh :-)



>... I can't believe we have another World's Largest
>Poster effort here

That was almost 3 years ago but I still remember Ron Seybold's nice
refreshments in the shade under a large tree.  What a wonderful HP3000
community event that was!  It was great to see many fierce competitors
working, side by side and with children in tow, on the implementation of
Wirt's fantastic idea.  I can assure you that working on the TV show
mentioned in http://www.adager.com/ExecForumAirings.html was a lot easier
than what Wirt and Valerie Atmar had to do for the Giant Poster.



>...  -- surely HP's PR corps must have been working to make a
>nationwide TV opportunity for the HP 3000 appear in so many homes.

In this particular case, even though Hewlett-Packard (at some rarefied
corporate level) is one of the sponsors, I don't believe anybody at HP had
any clue that the HP3000 was going to be "featured" until last week, when I
sent private messages to Harry Sterling and several of my friends at HP.
In fact, I kept the whole surprise under wraps.  I hate to pre-announce
things (whether software or anything else :-)
 _______________
|               |
|               |
|            r  |  Alfredo                     mailto:[log in to unmask]
|          e    |                                  http://www.adager.com
|        g      |  F. Alfredo Rego                       +1 208 726-9100
|      a        |  Manager, R & D Labs               Fax +1 208 726-2822
|    d          |  Adager Corporation
|  A            |  Sun Valley, Idaho 83353-3000                   U.S.A.
|               |
|_______________|