TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1998
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the Lubbock daily newspaper, carried a full
page article in their Neighbors Section about the upcoming Fest West '98
- Lubbock. The article, written by Ray Westbrook, was entitled Computer Memories.
It featured a large picture of keynote speaker
Lee Kitchens
. Lee, who was the Manufacturing Engineering Manager of the Consumer Products
Division at the Lubbock facility is currently retired from TI. However, he
is the Mayor of Ransom Canyon, Texas, about 6 miles from Lubbock. This article
gave Fest West '98 - Lubbock excellent advance publicity. To view the article,
click here
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During the TImeline setup, some Texas Instruments employees looked in to see what was going on. Their faces lit up as they exclaimed "I remember making that! I thought they were dead a long time ago!" and another stated "Yes, and I remember repairing lots of those." Whatever "those" were. In any case, they thought the display was great as it brought back old memories.
After completing the TImeline, it was back to the Sheraton Four Points Hotel to get the Pre-Registration started. As the day wore on to evening, TI99ers started coming in to get registered. TI99ers from Oklahoma, Texas, California, Tennessee, Germany, Holland, Wales, Arizona, California, and other states were registered. during the pre-registration
TI99ers lining up to register for Fest West '98
- Lubbock
At the end of the day, all those who wanted to attend the TI Experience at the Texas Instruments ' facility headed for a good nights sleep
ntation area of the cafeteria, they were greeted by the TImeline. Prior to the actual event start, everyone looked over the array of TI-99/4A related hardware.
Finally, it was time to start. The TI Experience was opened by Rodney Cates of Texas Instruments. Rodney was the initial contact person for Tom Wills. Rodney later turned the chore of being the contact person over to Gabriel Flores, who was also present.