lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (05/09/85)
Greetings. According to current plans, a Stargate demo will be running much of the time at the Portland Usenix Conference. Since we'll be taking our feed off the hotel cable system, we should be able to leave the equipment running much more extensively than in Dallas. By the time of the conference, I hope to have some "live" materials from the mod.* groups to replace the "canned" messages currently flowing. On another front, an additional five of the (old-style) decoders will be available shortly. These will be distributed to various parties who have expressed interest in experimenting with them on a free-loan basis. This will take us to a total of seven decoders in experimental operation. The tentative list of participants includes: 1) Vortex Technology (Los Angeles) 2) Rand Corp. (Santa Monica, CA) 3) Lucasfilm, Ltd. (San Rafael, CA) 4) U.C. Berkeley (EECS Dept.) 5) Oklahoma State Univ. 6) CUNY (New York City) 7) AT&T Bell Labs (Columbus, OH) --Lauren--