Wednesday, April 7 1999

Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday - Teams - Winners


Travel to the Netherlands


Somewhere over Europe in the morning...


...and finally arrived in Amsterdam, with not-so-friendly weather.

Tour of Amsterdam


Typical view of Amsterdam: Nice houses, channels and tourist boats


Some more pretty houses...


These houses almost seem to fall over...


What the car is to the American, is the bike to the Dutchmen -- we saw almost more bikes than cars and pedestrians together!


This is Amsterdam CS, the central train station.

From Amsterdam to Eindhoven


Most of us arrived by train to Eindhoven; train connections in Europe are just excellent.

Eindhoven City Tour


Some nice old houses in Eindhoven.


A piece of modern art


All participants including coaches, advisors and supporters are accommodated at the Holiday Inn in Eindhoven


A more remote look at Holiday Inn


Bikes, bikes, bikes...

A first look at TU Eindhoven


This is the Auditorium Building of TU Eindhoven, where the contest is going to take place.

Contest Preparations late in the evening


This will be the contest floor, the tables are being set up...


...and this is the view from the other side


Quite an impressive inventory of computer items which are used here...


Boxes, boxes, boxes...


...which are eventually being moved...
...to the contest floor

 
Out of a sudden, a lot of people appear and start to distribute the computers on the team's desks


All those computers are going to be networked, so a lot of cables are needed


Cabling the contest floor...


...and connecting the cables with the repeaters


Sorry, neither Sex, nor Drugs, nor Unix at this Contest ;-)

As of 8 April 1999 1555 MET DST
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