{"id":326,"date":"1995-08-02T13:46:23","date_gmt":"1995-08-02T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2014-03-16T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T18:18:07","slug":"sales-presentation-system-for-att-6300-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/1995\/08\/02\/sales-presentation-system-for-att-6300-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales presentation system for AT&#038;T 6300 release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AT&amp;T 6300 was AT&amp;Ts clone version of the Intel 8088 chip present in the  first IBM personal computer. At that time &#8220;clones&#8221; were rare and unreliable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To demonstrate the 6300\u00b4s compatibility Lon was contracted to create an automated example using Lotus 1-2-3 DOS version 1A.  Lotus 1-2-3 was considered a benchmark for personal computer compatibility.  Lon used the macro language  feature in Lotus to automate the demonstration.   AT&amp;T used this Lotus macro in convincing the personal computer world that their 6300 would run all the same software that the IBM personal computer did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secrecy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lon was under a top secret agreement during the project and was not able to reveal the existence of  the AT&amp;T personal computers to anyone. He recalls the floppy disks from Microsoft having various   customized versions of MSDOS for AT&amp;T to use in their eventual product branding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem The AT&amp;T 6300 was AT&amp;Ts clone version of the Intel 8088 chip present in the first IBM personal computer. At that time &#8220;clones&#8221; were rare and unreliable. The solution To demonstrate the 6300\u00b4s compatibility Lon was contracted to create an automated example using Lotus 1-2-3 DOS version 1A. Lotus 1-2-3 was considered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-history","category-projects","tag-dos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonhosford.com\/lonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}