On Wed, 1 May 2024, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
Games are always a good draw, even if that seems like cheating.
In the early days of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga, (and I may have the
two reversed in the following anecdote), Atari had a nice display of a
bouncing checkered beach ball. Amiga had almost nothing.
But, the second day, everybody except the booth bimbos at Commodore looked
haggard, but their machine was showing a bouncing checkered beach ball.
And it was bouncing faster than Atari's!
If you really want to be strategic, have a different demo available for
each day :-)
Sorry that I forgot to mention soldering iron and related tools; I had one
living in my car, so didn't think of it as a separate item.
My assistant hired a pretty girlfriend as a booth bimbo. She got us
invited to all of the parties (and some Comdex parties are incredible)
In my company everybody creates their own job title. I am "a programmer".
My assistant alternated between "VP" and "Emperor of the dark lords of the
universe". Our booth bimbo gave herself the title, "BAIT"
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Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
