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that I needed. The computers did not arrive untilthe last day of the show and then it turned outthey had not sent the necessary cables.I spent a lot of time at the show looking atother exhibits. To close the convention, there wasa big party. Lyn and I got a babysitter and wentto it. Lyn likes to go off on her own at parties.When she returned, she had made three friends.She introduced them to me: A man and his wife,and another man with a thick German accent.You could see the look of disappointment on theGerman man's face when she introduced me asher husband. We all left the party and continueddrinking at a Miami bar. We had not talked shopand I had no idea who they were or what theydid. Toward the end of the evening, one of themasked me, "Did you see anything at the show thatyou wanted to buy?" I said that I would love toget an Ektachrome processor for my lab, but theywere all way out of my price range. It was thenthat I learned that the German man was one ofGermany's foremost photographic equipmentmanufacturers. The other man was his U.S.distributor. He said that they needed to breakinto the New York market. They would loan BoxOne a processor if we would let them use it as ademo in New York. What seemed to be a totalwaste for "Data/Lab" turned into a good deal forBox One.276