Saturday January 10th Toronto misc. Tony Formo

Toronto. Rest, some e-mailing, telephone meeting with Norman. Organizing packing, conversation with Raj Sidhu in England. He wants me to get an endorsement letter from a UN agency either, UNICEF, UNESCO or UNDPI. I said I would try and sent letters off to Charles to get his assistance. Worked most of the day. Letter to Trinity for their Workstation. I think it is going to cost around $10 K. It is amazing that this piece of equipment will be able to do, quite proficiently the editing and post production mixing and live production that would have required over $300K in investment 15 years ago when I was in the studio business. After working all afternoon I took the opportunity to go for a steam at the Y. I ran into Tony Formo there and we had a good chat. He has moved all his libraries of books, and he has one of the most incredible libraries of any person I know, on to the computer. He also allowed me to be the first to acquire a disk with the library on it. Tony is a compulsive revolutionary. He is boycotting baseball even though he used to be a compulsive addict of the game catching over 100 games per year. He also wrote extensively on the subject and has a music library based upon the game of baseball. As part of his boycotting of the game he broke up part of his baseball library and sold off about 50% of his library ( keeping the rights to access the library when and if he chooses). We went out to dinner and in seeing how easy it is to make a CD-ROM disk I got quite enthused. I can see some specific immediate applications.