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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:47:54 -0800
To: jaques.law@dlcwest.com
From: bjaques@wimsey.com (Barton Jaques)

Don't try this in Regina with MUGORS ... your embarrassingly high death
rate could be a liability. The kids might get teased at school


 Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society (TUMS) staged a Marathon/Marathon on  
KOTV Channel 6, in Tulsa, Ok on January 15, 1996. The show airs in a 
market  made up of portions of a four state area. The Gaming SIG of TUMS 
organized network playing of Bungie Software's Marathon, and presented 
the concept  to KOTV's You're On with Sam Jones producer Ike Walker, a 
new Mac user himself, and worked out the details to play a networked 
Marathon on LIVE television. 

During the show participants played Marathon, and a live feed was done 
from an AV Mac to the station's switcher providing the home viewers with 
on screen action as the game was played. Sam Jones praised  the Macintosh 
for it's ease of set up and use. Asked questions of various  group 
members, showed off a PowerBook 520, which was connected to the internet 
and displayed a TUMS PR about the show. He also noted that the display  
that the viewers at home saw could ONLY be acomplished with the 
Macintosh.  

Sam's Musical Director, Sonny Gray, also a Mac user, made comments in the 
"Been There, Done That" vein concerning Win. '95, and the use of his 
Macintosh for music composing and arranging. Sam was impressed by the 3-D 
action of Marathon, the stereo sound, and the great graphics. I provided 
a rare  "Been There, Done That" t-shirt for a give-away to a caller 
(You're On is a call-in type format).

TUMS has realized a significant increase in membership inquiries, 
inquiries about purchases of Macintosh computers, has realized an 
increase in membership for the traditionally slow month of January, and 
has  answered inquiries about where to buy Marathon, both versions.

This has proven to be a great idea for getting out the word about 
Macintosh, having alot of fun doing it, and also promoting the user 
group. TUMS did give all of the shows Mac users free one year memberships 
after the show, as a thank you. The show airs for one hour, and most all 
of the hour was dedicated to TUMS and the Macs. We could not have 
afforded to buy that much publicity.

Michael Crabbe
Secretary Tulsa Users of Macintosh 
mcrabbe@ionet.net


courtesy of bjaques@wimsey.com