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Re: UpComing COMPUTAX




I think this is a great idea and I'm going to try this on EIM.
(+ I steel don't know if they are going to exhibit at the computax)

On Thu, 18 May 1995, Harvey J. Stein wrote:

> 
> I have an approach which might work.Call the company you bought
> computer equipment from and find out if they're exhibiting at the
> show.If they are, call the guy in charge and say something like:
> 
>  Hi.  I represent the Israel Linux Users Group (and am also a
>  satisfied client of your firm).  We understand that you will be
>  exhibiting at the computax show.  We thought you might be
>  interested in demoing UNIX performance on your hardware.  We can
>  send someone down ahead of time to install UNIX on one of your
>  machines, and we can supply someone to be at the show to run
>  applications and to answer questions.  Applications include
>  editors, graphical windowing environment, networking, multitasking,
>  internet access (WWW browsers), etc.  It's sure to attract alot of
>  people to your booth because
> 
>     a) it would be a satisfied customer vouching for your equipment,
>        and service, 
>     b) this would all be based on a FREE version of UNIX which has
>        recently been attracting LOTS of publicity (with articles in
>        Dr. Dobbs Journal, a Jolt award in Software Development
>        magazine, ...), and
>     c) since the software is *all* *free*, we can give out
>        *unlimited* copies.
> 
>  This last point is guaranteed to attract alot of people and
>  publicity.
> 
> I'm going to try this with HP.
> 
> Harvey
> 

Bye.

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