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> G'day folks,
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> Turns out many if not all of us live or have relatives in Chicago.
> Is it possible for us to all meet in Chicago for a weekend...perhaps
> during the holidays if we are all visiting relatives in Chicago then?
> An alternative would be to set up a "Cinematronics weekend" where
> everyone comes to Chicago and I put you up Saturday night. We'd be
> able to hack all weekend in probably one of the most conducive
> environments around....Rick's basement (with both my and his inventory
> to draw on)!! Doug Jefferys did this about two years ago, and he'll
> tell you that he was extremely productive!!!!
And we'll be working towards what goal? I'm not knocking the "get-together"
aspect, but what work needs to get done? Paul and I are getting tons done
over the internet. (well, paul is -- I've been building a deck :).. The
other problem is that at least for me all my development utilities sit
on a couple of machines in my study, supplemented via links to my
office machines... Intel takes a dim view on proprietary hardware going
on trips.. (and dialups don't work -- WAY too slow, and Novell doesn't allow
outside connections to the internal nets..) Also all of my hardware
development stuff is highly "non-portable". I know rick's got a lot of
stuff, but its not always the same..
Is there something "specific" we need to work on? (beyond the current
"in-flight" projects?)
> Along other lines, I talked things over with Paul, and we are considering
> setting up a conference call with Larry Rosenthal...the guy who designed,
> debugged and made the Cinematronics hardware! Unfortunately, after looking
> into things a little bit, it looks like conference calls would cost a
> quarter per person per minute!! Quite expensive...but not expensive
> enough to deter me!!! Are any of you interested in this if you have
> to foot the bill for yourself? The call would probably last for less
> than an hour (= $15/per person in phone charges), since he probably
> won't give us any more of his time than that....I'm assuming he's
> willing to talk with us.
If someone puts a simple agenda together of what we want to cover, no
problem. (ohmygod, I can't believe I just said that sentence.. Oh well)..
I guess I'd like to give Larry at least SOME questions beforehand to
give him a chance to come up with the answers rather than "I don't remember
off the top of my head.."
Paul can speak as to what the two of us need. (I'm not saying that I wouldn't
mind talking with him, but to be truly useful I'd like a semi-directed
conversation..)
Is Larry on the net?
Kurt
