Diary

to try. I guess I have to think about what T/S has to offer & how they try to attract customers. They whole reason for this hour was to think whether EDITX has any worth. I am concluding that I really don't know. I spent 11-11:30 getting DATACO to do solder & 11:30-12 w/ Chuck on phone. From 12-1 I just reviewed my thoughts.

EDX is the only thing that makes me at all special. Should I try to clean up on it now + be done or just hang in there + see it through. Who can I sell it too. Universities are too snobbish, cheap & bureaucratic. Business, you have to get the users interested and/or the operations people. And then mgt has to pay for it. So they have to be convinced. It is not that directly related to their business. Does it help them produce that much more? No. It relieves

frustration & make programming easier. I've tried selling it to APS (we'll see) and Rey [reg?] 19 in El Paso (no luck). But if the people who use it can really say good stuff about it and if they are the ones to spend the money on it, then it may be saleable. And of course we can push the improvements part of the agreement. If I had SOS and $3600, it all depends on how much cash a comp center has. This is for a business with its own 10. If they have a ten, then they had money.

Now what about T/S companies. They are pretty greedy with their cash & if they have an editor which they think highly of, then as T. McLoan points out, you can't even get their attention. But is he telling the truth? Did he push EDITX?

Then there are research institutes, public schools, small colleges, etc. There

it all depends on cash. How much do they have? Is $3600 too much?

It really doesn't look promising. From 2 TS companies, 20 businesses, and 10 colleges you might get $100,000. Of which I would get maybe 60% of the profit. Maybe I'd get $60K.

SO that's where it lay for a while. Rest of Thursday I wokred for MSoft getting Commo BASIC finalized. Started pretty early Friday ~ 10 + worked all day till about 7:30. Then exercised. During exercise I began to ask myself what I want in regard to anything. Just prior to getting there I was thinking about doing a comparison between me, Paul + Bill. But I realized that that wouldn't show much. I've very successfull at doing what I've wanted up through this time, considering the facts of reality. I've accomplished a lot of very interesting things.

My problem now is what I want to do in the future. Do I want to be like Paul/Bill, I don't know! Bill works much harder than I'd care to, at least at this time. I have worked very hard on lots of things at different times & I've had really good times other times. The question is what sort of life do I want to do now? I want to be very bullish & aggressive in software 40 hrs a week + screwed around & have a good life too. I want to get a position in the software industry or rather the computer industry which will help me be someone. I want to use my mind. I want to work on interesting things and reap profit from them. This is very true.

To do that I have to have cash & more brains. I am willing to move ahead & get some cash + more brains from RM. And if I

need to, I will go to business school.

So I really want to get cash. I want to make something of myself. I want to be somebody with goals to accomplish. I must figure out what EDX is worth as that is the only way I think I can get cash.

One major problem w/EDX is that it replaces something which is pretty good. The question has to be whether people think EDX is that much better than what they have. They can also be buying a service from RM. The development service.

If I sell out EDX what will I do? I of course would continue to work at RM. Would I work hard? Not as hard as if I still were getting a percentage from EDX. That's for sure. But it would be advantageous to