Hard Wiring Made Simple

For its Pentium Three launch at the San Jose Convention Center, Intel brought together 225 of its top customers and gave them all wired kiosks to showcase products that used the new system. Set-up and testing went smoothly. Then, with an hour to go before the press arrived, one of the broadcast giants ran into trouble demonstrating its streaming media site. The stream suddenly slowed to a drip. The images were barely moving. It was one of those horrible moments that can--and do--happen at