Xerox Daybreak

The Star presentation was certainly well attended -- it was packed to overflowing! I was out in the lobby watching the presentation on a monitor, and apparently there were other folks watching other monitors in the cafeteria. Anyway, that is why I gave up on notes -- couldn't concentrate on the palmtop keyboard and the monitor at the same time. Afterward a bunch of us did get together outside the auditorium lobby, Uncle Roger tried to make me hold up a classiccmp sign, I tried waving my appendages a bit whenever I saw someone I recognized, and somehow I think we completely missed Rax. Sorry about that, Rax. I will try to plan better next time. So who was there? Roger Sinasohn, Rachel ? (Uncle Roger's girlfriend -- the schoolteacher who is always on the lookout for Macs), Doug Yowza, Doug Coward, Paul Coad, Sam Ismail, Edwin El-Kareh, and y'r humble narrator. Stuff was swapped, stories were exchanged, we moved to the parking lot, yakked some more, then security came around, someone made the mistake of asking me where to go and I suggested the El Paso Cafe in Mountain View. (Hey, I know *I* can get some good cheap eats there.) Notes: (a) At least some of us seem to want to do this get-together thing again. Of course we did not reach any consensus w/r/t time and date as Roger now wants to check and see whether his tap dancing lessons collide. (b) We need to start earlier, 9:00 PM is late for dinner and the El Paso closes at 10:00. Other places close earlier than that. (c) So...fine, here's a time and place for all us Bay Areans to argue over: Second Thursday, 09 July 1998, 7:00 PM, El Paso Cafe, 1407 W El Camino Real, Mountain View. Y'all can flame me about this in public or private, and I'm still open to change, but I want to announce the real time and place on 30 June. -Frank McConnell