EXHIBIT 10.4


                            ALPHA/BETA TEST AGREEMENT

AGREEMENT  dated  as of  March  20,  1997 by and  between  Casdim  International
Systems, Inc., a Colorado corporation with a principal office at 90 Park Avenue,
New York, New York  ("Casdim"),  and Ramada Franchise  Systems,  Inc, a Delaware
corporation with an office at 339 Jefferson Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054 ("RFS").

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In the consideration of the mutual agreements and covenants herein,  the parties
agree as follows:

          1. Recitals

Casdim  is  in  the  business  of  developing,   manufacturing,   marketing  and
distributing multi-media, electronic information products. RFS is the franchisor
of the Ramada guest lodging  facility  system  ("Systems").  RFS desires to have
developed for placement, on a test basis, in certain lodging facilities operated
by its franchisees ("Test Facilities") interactive, electronic kiosks ("Kiosks")
and pay-per-use  information systems ("PPU's"),  with the intention of promoting
the  installation  of Kiosks and PPU's  throughout  the System (the  "Project").
Casdim  is  willing  to  develop  and  install  Kiosks  and  PPU's  in the  Test
Facilities.

          2. CASDIM's Duties

(a)  CASDIM  will work with RFS to  establish,  not later than  April 30,  1997,
     mutually  acceptable  specifications  for the services and in-room  content
     offered by the Kiosks and PPU's the "specifications."

(b)  CASDIM,  at its own cost,  shall undertake to develop Kiosks and PPU's with
     the specifications.

(c)  CASDIM, at its own cost, shall provide all hardware and software  necessary
     to operate the Kiosks and the PPU, and shall  install such number of Kiosks
     and PPU units as the parties shall  mutually  determine is sufficient for a
     valid test at the  selected  Alpha Test Sites.  For purposes of the testing
     phase,  there shall be no requirement that RFS or any franchisee modify any
     applicable CRS nor an interface between the CRS and the PMS. The Kiosks and
     the PPU shall be installed  and  operational  at the Alpha Test Sites in or
     about June, 1997 with the Alpha Test completed no later than July 31, 1997.

(d)  If both  parties  agree that the Alpha Test was  successful  and meet their
     needs,  CASDIM,  at its own  cost,  shall  provide  hardware  and  software
     necessary  to operate  Kiosks and PPU's,  and shall  install such number of
     Kiosks and PPU units as the parties shall mutually  determine is sufficient
     for a valid test at the Beta Test  Sites.  The  Kiosks  and PPU's  shall be
     installed and operational at the Beta Test Sites in or about September 1997
     with the Beta Test completed no later than March 31, 1998.




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(e)  Casdim agrees to leave the cabling and infrastructure at test hotels in the
     same condition as when the project began.

3.   RFS' Duties

(a)  RFS shall select  three alpha test sites and nine beta test sites,  subject
     to the approval of CASDIM, for installation of Kiosk's and PPU's.

(b)  RFS  shall   act  as  a   facilitator   at  each   test   site   conducting
     pre-installation   property  approval,   television   hardware   inventory,
     providing checklists of services and participating on a project development
     team, led by CASDIM.

(c)  RFS shall provide to CASDIM all relevant  technical and market data and use
     its best reasonable efforts to promote the success of the Project.

(D)  RFS shall cause the Test Facilities to promote and advertise the Kiosks and
     PPU's in the Test Facilities,  specifically:  tent cards,  counter cards on
     property,  directory coverage,  reservation center promotion and promotions
     to RBC members.

4.      Full Systems Implementation:

If both parties  determine that the Kiosks and PPU's  installed at the Alpha and
Best Test Sites comply with the  Specifications and meet their needs, they shall
use their best  reasonable  efforts to enter into an  agreement  for full system
implementation that shall include the following:

(a)  CASDIM  shall,  as an  independent  contractor,  manufacture,  install  and
     maintain  Kiosks  and  PPU's in  participating  RFS  franchised  facilities
     ("Participating  Facilities")  at no  charge  to RFS  or the  Participating
     Facility.

(b)  RFS  shall  assist  in  establishing   specifications,   provide  technical
     interface with its system, shall market to the franchised  facilities,  the
     Kiosks and PPU's and sell  advertising in connection with Kiosks and PPU's.
     RFS shall, directly or indirectly,  use reasonable efforts to encourage the
     franchised  facilities to have Kiosks and PPU's installed and maintained at
     their  facilities by CASDIM and to maximize  revenue from Kiosks and PPU's.
     RFS shall provide to CASDIM a target list of qualifying facilities.  CASDIM
     recognizes and acknowledges that the franchised facilities are individually
     owned  and  operated  and that RFS can  recommend,  but not  compel,  their
     participation in this program.

(c)  RFS shall exclusively recommend CASDIM to the franchised facilities for the
     installation  of  electronic  kiosks  and  Pay-Per-Use  systems  if certain
     mutually  agreed  criteria are satisfied.  No other provider of Pay Per Use
     information and transactional services shall be recommended or supported by
     RFS.

(d)  RFS shall  specify PMS  interfaces  to its  subsidiaries  PMS  suppliers to
     interface with Kiosks and PPU's as necessary.

(e)  RFS shall use its reasonable  efforts to encourage its preferred vendors to
     advertise  in the Kiosks  and PPU's.  If  mutually  agreed by the  parties,
     participating  preferred  vendors  will  receive  discounts  from  CASDIM's
     standard advertising rates.


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(f)  A commission  structure and revenue  sharing  formula for  advertising  and
     other  revenue  shall  be  developed  that is  mutually  acceptable  to the
     parties.

(g)  CASDIM shall  install and maintain  Kiosks and PPU's in RFS'  Participating
     Facilities on a priority basis vis-a-vis other lodging providers.

5.   Inventions, Proprietary Information and Rights, and Confidentiality.

(a)  Inventions and Proprietary  Rights. All inventions,  know-how,  technology,
     technical designs, technical data, manufacturing processes, quality control
     techniques  and  tests,  operating  techniques  and  methods,   engineering
     designs,  apparatus and ideas of a technical  nature which result therefrom
     or are  embraced  therein  or relate  thereto,  whether  or not  reduced to
     writing and whether  patentable or  unpatentable,  improvements  thereof or
     developments  in  respect  thereto,  together  with  all  expertise  owned,
     possessed by or in respect of which CASDIM has the right to grant  licenses
     or rights at any time during the term of this Agreement  relating to Kiosks
     or PPU's ("Technology") and conceived or first reduced to practice, as that
     term  is  used  before  the  U.S.  Patent  and  Trademark  Office,  in  the
     development of Kiosks or PPU's,  whether prior or subsequent to the date of
     this  Agreement,  shall be the sole and exclusive  property of CASDIM,  and
     CASDIM  shall  retain any and all  rights to file any  patent  applications
     thereon.

(b)  Proprietary Information and Confidentiality.

     (i)  CASDIM  and RFS  agree  that  any  proprietary  information  which  is
          furnished by either party  relating to the Project will be  maintained
          by  the  receiving  party  in  confidence  during  the  term  of  this
          Agreement,  and for  five  (5)  years  following  termination  of this
          agreement,  to the same extent that the receiving  party  protects its
          own  proprietary  information.  The  receiving  party  shall  use  the
          proprietary  information  only for the  purposes  set forth herein and
          shall not assign,  transfer or disclose it outside of its organization
          or System except to its attorneys,  accountants,  or other consultants
          on a need to know basis.  The receiving  party shall not disclose such
          proprietary  information to any party without a need to know or to any
          party  who is not  subject  of a  non-disclosure  agreement  with  the
          receiving party.

          (ii) During the term of this  Agreement,  neither party shall be under
               any  obligation  to  maintain  in  confidence  any portion of the
               received information which:

               (1)  is  now or  which  hereafter,  becomes  generally  known  or
                    available through no fault of the receiving party;

               (2)  is known at the time of receiving such information:

               (3)  is  furnished  to others  by the  disclosing  party  without
                    restriction upon disclosure; or

               (4)  is hereafter  furnished to the receiving  party,  by a third
                    party,  as a matter  of right  and  without  restriction  of
                    disclosure.



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               (5)  is  subpoenaed  or  otherwise  demanded by a court of law or
                    similar tribunal  provided that the receiving party provides
                    timely  notification  to the disclosing  party and makes any
                    reasonable  efforts  required  by the  disclosing  party  to
                    protect the  confidentiality of such information  including,
                    without  limitation,  obtaining a protective  order for such
                    information.

(c)  Return of Papers Each party shall promptly, whenever required by the other,
     deliver all documents,  papers, and records which may have been prepared by
     or have come into such  party's  possession  in the  course of the  Project
     which contain proprietary  information and such party shall not be entitled
     to or shall retain any copies thereof.

(d)  Fairness The parties hereto agree and acknowledge that the restrictions set
     forth in this Section 5 hereof are the result of arm's  length  bargaining,
     are fair and reasonable,  and are reasonably required for the protection of
     the interests of the parties.

6.   The term of this  Agreement  shall be from the date  first set forth  above
     until the parties have completed  their  obligations  hereunder or December
     31, 2001, which ever occurs first.

7.   Miscellaneous

(a)  Binding  Effect  This  Agreement  will inure to the benefit of and shall be
     binding upon the parties hereto, their successors and permitted assigns.

(b)  Entire   Agreement  This  Agreement   contains  the  entire  agreement  and
     understanding  of the parties  with respect to the subject  matter  hereof,
     supersedes all prior agreements and understandings with respect thereto and
     cannot be modified,  amended,  waived or  terminated,  in whole or in part,
     except in writing signed by the party to be charged.

(c)  Construction  While the parties  hereto  believe  that the terms hereof are
     fair,  reasonable and  enforceable  in all respects,  it is agreed that any
     provision of this Agreement which is held to be prohibited or unenforceable
     in any jurisdiction  shall, as to such jurisdiction,  be ineffective to the
     extent of such  prohibition or  unenforceability  without  invalidating the
     remaining  provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or  unenforceability
     in any  jurisdiction  shall not  invalidate  or render  unenforceable  such
     provision in any other jurisdiction.

(d)  Assignment  This Agreement may not be assigned by a party without the prior
     written  consent  of the  other  and any  purported  assignment  hereof  in
     violation of this provision shall be null and void.

(e)  Governing Law and Venue This  Agreement  shall be governed by and construed
     in  accordance  with the  internal  laws of the  State of New York  without
     reference to the conflict of laws provisions thereof.

Each party  irrevocably  consents to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State
of New York and of any Federal court  located in such State in  connection  with
any  action,  suit  or  other  proceeding  arising  out of or  relating  to this
Agreement  or any act taken or  omitted  hereunder  and waives and agrees not to
assert in any such action,  suit or other  proceeding  that it is not personally
subject to the  jurisdiction  of such  courts,  that the  action,  suit or other
proceeding is brought in an inconvenient  forum or that the venue of the action,
suit or other proceeding is improper.


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(f)  Independent Contractors The parties are independent contractors and neither
     party shall have authority bind the other to any obligation.

(g)  Survival The  provisions of Sections 5 and this Section 7 shall survive any
     termination of this Agreement.



IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the parties have  executed  this  Agreement as of the date
first written above.



CASDIM INTERNATIONAL                                RAMADA FRANCHISE
SYSTEMS, INC.                                       SYSTEMS, INC.


By: /s/Yehuda Shimshon                              By: /s/W. Scott, Jr.
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