OT: computer nostalgia (was RE: Rapid once deployed too)

D . Thomas Podnar tom at microlite.com
Sun May 7 19:02:50 PDT 2006


On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 02:09:41PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006, D. Thomas Podnar wrote:
> ...
> >The first time I booked a suite at the Tandy Americana during a users
> >conference to show our our products was quite interesting. I don't drink
> >and had no idea how to stock a bar (just that I'd need one to help
> >motivate people to come up to the suite), so I enlisted the aid of someone
> >who had more experience. I'm not sure if I remember exactly, but I think
> >the mix was distinctly heavy with good Kentucky Bourbon. 
> 
> Stocking bars was one of Bob Snapp's specialties.

Perhaps, but it was Mr. Stockler, not Mr. Snapp, who so graciously helped
me, and not for the first time. Long ago I related the story of checking into
my Louisville hotel during Thanksgiving of 1990 or 1991, it's been too long
to remember, only to have the clerk deliver me a fruit basket and an
advance copy of "The Guru" courtesy of Bob.

-- 
Tom Podnar


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