ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (AMOEBOID) (11/21/89)
Well, COMDEX 89 has come and gone. Some interesting items were
seen.
The Commodore booth was not as large as the last COMDEX. The did
have some of the new cards ('030, multi-serial card) on display,
but nothing working, they were under plastic hanging on the
wall. They had a DTP station, an animation station (thanks to
Rick Unland for the personal demo of Genesis), a music station,
a genlocking station, and a large information booth. The booth
was sort of in the corner of the Rotunda, but not really in the
main stream of things (but boy, do those green/yello buttons
glow ;-)).
SyQuest was there - they had on display a new 3 1/2" 42 meg
removable media (similar to the SQ555) and a 5 1/4" removable
disk that can hold 170 megs of data. They are SCSI interface (so
should work with GVP) and will be shipping this summer.
Saw a 20 meg floptical - SCSI interface, so all it needs is
a driver (HINT :-)). Looked pretty good - sleek and fast.
Stopped by a place that had internal and external drives for the
Amiga. Asked them about their distribution channels. They told me the
distributer was located in New York, so I asked who. I almost split
my pants when they told me their sole distributer was none other than
Montgomery Grant!!! BOY, did they get an earful (from 4 of us at once).
Since all the gentlemen from the company were oriental, I assumed they
did not read UseNet (their loss) from over the big pond (before anyone
starts in on me, this is not a slander, but the fact that only one out
of 3 folks spoke very broken English, I assumed they needed some
enlightenment on their choice of distributers).
If I see one more 486 machine I am going to barf :-). And to think,
with OS/2 (half an operating system for half a computer) you
can multi-task with only 4-6 megs of memory and a 40 meg hard drive :-).
And finally, I guess I have to stop all my good natured flaming
of Commodore :-), I now work for a local Amiga dealer (what else do you
do with an advanced Biology degree :-)). I work for Expert Services,
the place that is going to be distributing the Rejuvinator Card from
Greg Tibbs. I finally hounded Scott, the owner, into paying me
for waht I was doing for free all this time (GRIN).
See ya in the funnies,
George
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