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...vaporware," says Daniel Bricklin, co-author of VisiCalc. Bricklin believes prototypes were crucial to that product's eventual success. "With VisiCalc," he says, "nobody knew what I was talking about until I wrote the program." To spare others that inconvenience, he has created something he calls Dan Bricklin's Demo Program, which enables a software developer to construct a convincing demonstration even if the software has not yet been written. Bricklin calls his product "a vaporware generator." But it is not quite ready for market. "It will be done," he says, "as soon as I've got all the bugs...
...looks bright for the firm. They have written books to accompany Digital's courseware and have basically taught AT&T's salesmen, "salesmen who before were just selling telephones," how to use their minicomputer, the UNIX PC. In fact, many retail stores selling AT&T computers now use the demo the two wrote to show off the features of the UNIX...
...Chelsea disco that caters to purple-haired punks in leather and other exotics, is credited with "discovering" Madonna in 1982, although like America before Columbus, she was there all along. "She had this incredible sense of style," says Kamins. "She had an aura." She also had a four-track demo tape she had made with another boyfriend, a musician named Steve Bray. Kamins played it and got great response from the disco crowd for a song called Everybody. Madonna's career began to gather momentum, and Kamins at one point thought she had agreed to let him produce her first...
That cold-eyed view of the future makes some of Ferraro's colleagues uncomfortable. "She has a tendency to be involved in everything," says a Demo ratic Congressman. "I'm a little backed off by her multiple ambitions." There is also concern over her untroubled rise in the House. "Because she's the darling of the leadership, we've handed her every prize in the book," says one Democratic member. "She hasn't been tested here...
...then it's Jim Garvey. Before being recognized as one of the squad's most talented and versatile performers, Garvey had to steer his way around several obstacles. Seeing very little playing time through the beginning of his junior year, Garvey spent most of his time working with the demo squad and watching the events of a game from the sidelines...