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To: Getcher who wrote (808)	4/24/1998 12:33:00 AM
From: JSB	Respond to of 4650

Getcher........great idea. Count me in with 11K Best to all Jeff

To: Getcher who wrote (808)	4/24/1998 12:54:00 AM
From: JOHN WHITE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4650

Getcher your cover is already blown . First of all ADOT reads this thread . Second of all it's most likely that ADOT - as most publicly traded corporations have - has a list of these 5% or more investors in there office. Too bad they won't be more open with the very investors that have helped finance their operation . John

To: Getcher who wrote (808)	4/24/1998 1:38:00 AM
From: BIGFRED	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4650

Hi Getcher: That is very courageous of you after what happened with Richard. If I understanding you correctly, why don't you bring this subject up again in mid June. Hopefully, we will have the first quarter report, a fully reporting company and a couple more press releases. We might be desperate for information or sitting pretty. Let's wait, Fred

To: Getcher who wrote (808)	4/24/1998 3:40:00 AM
From: Kurt N	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4650

I like that approach, maybe Les will be more amiciable (sociable/agreeable [insert your favorite synonym]) if the questions are given to him in advance before a phone call (conference call a good idea too) and informing him in advance before visiting in person (although an un-announced visit is better in that they are not expecting you and gives you a feel for what a 'normal' day is). I'm content to wait thru June 1998 and a month or two after that (did they specify when in June??) for the completion of the bulletin boards. At that point we should be able to see them. I'm assuming that ADOT doesn't get fully paid until the billboards are completed/delivered/installed/operational. Everybody wants to see the billboard including myself. Something that would be nice would be a picture of the billboard and put it up on their web-site, even if it's partially completed and/or working. Either that or a picture of something else working on a much smaller scale that uses the same technology. I'm almost sure that they would have a prototype around (unless they are using it show to prospective customers, in which case get the Salesperson to take a picture of it). I guess my single and only question is, can you show us a display of any size that uses your technology. Follow up questions would be: How long did it take you to make it then? How long would it take you to make it now? Is scaling it up to the size of a billboard the equivalent of building several of these small flat-panel displays and placing them side by side, row by row? What are the major advantages of your technology over the competition?? Does ADOT focus only on the hardware end and provide only bare-bones functionality in terms of controlling what is displayed (ie. set pixel in row #80, column #90 to color value xxx, set pixel in row #80, column #91 to yyy, etc..). Does ADOT simply have to write a driver for some VERY VERY expensive software that controls billboards, like in the good ol days of MS-DOS applications and printing (somebody either printer vendor or software vendor wrote a driver that would let the software send the data to the printer in a form it understood)?? Or does all software development get outsourced so that ADOT can focus on what it does best? A lot of these questions are technical in nature. I'm interested in the software aspect, not only because I am a developer, but it seems that the displays are next to useless without software (unless you go to the control panel and manually type in the color values.) Kurt

To: Getcher who wrote (808)	4/24/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: ksuave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4650

I think it's an excellent idea you propose, Getcher, that someone from this thread make another attempt to see what's really going on at 5601 Holly N.E., and to do so with more preparation and introduction than I made, but maybe we needn't maintain this level of hostility. Perhaps if you wrote Robbins' a letter explaining that in June you will be in the vicinity and that you would like to come by and visit, and that you represent a fairly large group of investors who communicate via the internet, yatta yatta, perhaps he'll be more receptive. If he responds by saying your not welcome, or if he doesn't respond at all, then we could get a little more forceful with him, no? Oddly, I think I'm much less upset about my experience than a bunch of you who've responded, though admittedly I probably have less at stake. Although I found Robbins lacking in social graces and stupid for speaking so rudely to an interested shareholder, it really wasn't that traumatic of an experience. As I explained to Fred in a private e-mail, I could help but laugh a couple of times when Robbins made some particularly nasty comment or other, and I really felt more a sense of wonderment than anger. Also, I don't think we can draw any conclusions based on what I didn't see. As someone pointed out, there may have been rear parking. I have no idea about what goes into making a flat panel screen, but I suspect it doesn't involve a bunch of guys welding things back in the shop. We just really don't know. Some other points: Robbins said 11 full-time and part-time employees. Sorry I wasn't more specific. Also, when he said "We are PLZTECH", my impression was that he meant they always were, it was the same management team. What I don't like is the almost imperceptible, steady daily decline from mid-30's to 19 over the last few weeks. Somebody's obviously selling, and I hope it's not PLZTECH. All jmo . . . Richard