22-X-1988.

(Date approximate, should be a saturday)

With Mika Fišer and the director of Students' on the Interbiro in Zagreb. Nothing that I haven't seen on many other fairs, or on the same one last year, it's just that this time I was looking at other things - the hardware for the company we were creating. Didn't come to any conclusion then, it will depend on what will be available at the time, but I rather got the general picture.

And the picture was that the software they were selling was trash, it was mostly smoke and mirrors made for demoing, not really working. I developed a simple test, right there on the spot - I'd just press enter. Half of them crashed.

Mika Fišer was complaining about how he's living thin at home, eating mostly beans, even though his father was, more or less, the most prominent pulmologist in town, and founded the clinic of which he was the chief. They should be living just fine, so something wasn't adding up.

Zagreb was quite spruced up at the time, having held the Univerzijada the year before. Some of it spread to the fair grounds, probably some of the exhibition halls were retrofitted for indoors sports, so they had the sliding glass doors with approach detectors, which was a novelty at the time, and probably my first time of going through one. Mika Fišer went on to explain how these detectors work - they measure the microchanges in air density, caused by passing of a human body. Saying that he approached a door and it didn't open. It opened only when one of us two came closer. Okay, we believe you that you're living thin, the machine didn't even consider you dense enough.


Mentions: Radovan Fišer (Mika Fišer), Students' cooperative, in serbian