19960502 Money Distribution Finalized

19960508 Seer notifies OTL of Creative deal compliance
19960530 MCW renders opinion on interim agt.

19960501 $6M valuation by Creative
19960519 Revocation of S Corp Status

19960531 Intel says it is closing in

Electronic Musician p. 96/5: Steve Oppenheimer review of Reality

19960401 Vesting Purchase Agts

19960401	Seer Summit #1
19960415	EM reviews Reality/NAMM Greatest Hits

19960415 Intel pays 2 of 3

19960415 DS/DR/FK Promissory Notes
19960415 Voting Agreement

19960416 Internal Spreadsheet relies on Upgrade income
19960424 TLA Final
19960424 Equity Documents
19960425 Retain Coopers & Lybrand (Roxanne)

19960306 Merc news on NSP

19960318 Interim Agt. / Jungleib & Smith Promissory Notes
19960322 Seer offers Reality to Creative – wanted the clock to start on their option asap.
19960324 Letter Agreement
19960324 Amended & Restated Articles of Incorporation

Intel, Microsoft reveal new standards:

19960205 Preferred Stock Financing

19960205 Intel fails decision
19960215 SJ demands release from Intel in their own interest
19960225 Intel-Creative (Microsoft) License Agreement (TLA)

CTL
19960203 TLA draft 2
19960209 SJ report on Intel issue
19960209 No-shop extension

This explicated the AHA! into an eventual patent application.

First affordable synthesizer with multi-timbral physical modeling.

Back: Frank, David
Front: Greg, Stanley, Dave

It was worth doing just for the expression on the Korg R&D faces when they realized we had just obsoleted their exotic hardware plans. We were also pretty cocky at the show because we were already negotiating with Creative Labs.

19960108 Microsoft announces WDM to kill NSP
19960115 Intel takes optional non-compete extension
19960115 Intel discloses MMX to Seer
19960122 Intel Re-Releases NSP code (without Native Audio)
19960124 Seer requests Intel approval for Creative deal

19960101 Creative losses: $30M in quarter
19960101 SEEERSYNTH > CREATIVE WAVESYNTH 1.0
19960103 LOI draft
19960111 LOI final / No shop
19960112 National Semiconductor
19960118 NAMM 96 Anaheim: showed SeerSynth & Reality prototype

19960125 Draft Technology License Agreement (TLA)
19960126 SJ TLA response
19960130 Seer Patent Report
19960131 Reality Biz Plan 2.0