Thalhuber Koan

I used to go see presentations and product updates for a particular 4GL called Mapper, these were given by a technical expert John Thalhuber, who was involved in the development of the product but who helped out the marketing function from time to time. During the years he had been giving the presentations, I had been to see many of them, and they were very, very good. John made lots of use colour, pictures, and stereo music, all written in the particular 4GL and running on a PC. One of his techniques was to include photographs of his daughters, the Thalhuber girls, to explain various features and concepts, I watched those girls grow up.

One example of the Thalhuber girls in action was when John showed a photograph of his daughters with a monitor covered in jelly and cream on it .....a gooey interface!

Another of John's presentations was a 25th anniversary in which he looked back to the accompaniment of pop records of the time. Unfortunately, he explained that he had dropped his portable PC on the way in and instead of going back 25 years it became stuck in the 70's playing;

night fe-ver night fe-ver night fe-ver night fe-ver

...by the Bee Gee's. This was obviously an error as no one would want to be stuck in that decade.