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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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