ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau) (06/02/88)
Excuse me if this is a duplicate, but I do not think my last post made it past the mad guardian of the net. I have heard from a dealer friend of mine that some major computer dealer in CA. signed an exclusive agreement with the show folks. In a nutshell, this company is the only one allowed to sell hardware and software at AmiExpo. According to my friend, when he went to register for a booth he was told that unless he was the developer of the item, he could not sell anything. Also, I have heard that even the local Chicago dealers are not permitted to sell equipment and are trying to get Commodore to pull the license from the CA. company for crossing sales boundries. Does anyone know if this is true. My dealer friend says this is what he was told by the show coordinators upon an attempted registration. If this is true, this sounds like a shi**y way to run a show. I was planning on attending the show with a pocket full of cash but if I do not hear different I will not be attending. Flame off Johnny. George Gibeau -- (Why do we drive on our parkways and park on our driveways?) Idiots? They're worse than idiots. They're bureaucrats!! UUCP: ucqais.uc.edu!ggibeau BBS: (513) 721-7977 GT NODE: 006/005 US Snail-Dept of Biology ML 06, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau) (08/01/89)
Well, another AmiExpo has come and gone. This show looked a bit slimmer than the ones in the past. Brochures going around in the past mentioned that there are over 110 vendors expected. The official program listed about 52 and there were about 10 no-shows, so actual numbers were about 42-45, still it was an OK show. Some nice Keynote speeches, Dr. Henri Rubin gave a nice speech on various aspects of the Amiga. Jim Sachs gave a nice speech on using the Amiga for artwork (also showed demos of his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - VERY impressive) as well as his own custom loader, could load the game and start it in about 1 second - unfortunately he does not "play by the rules" so do not look for this to be a public feature in all software. Tim Jenszon (sp?) president of NewTek gave a great talk, as well as a Schwabbian (:-)) entrance - came into the room on roller skates with a fan on his back - pretty funny. Not too many new products: Toaster was being shown with genuine ads for it ;-), Jay Minor was there at the UltraCard booth, looking very good considering the past health problem. CSC had new MAC2DOS product, allows your amiga to read/write mac disks - but will not run stuff ala Amax. Lots more magazines make it there than in the old (HA - last year) days - this is encouraging. Greg Tibbs (the guy with the Obese Agnus hack for the 1000) generated a lot of interest - had a steady stream of folks coming up to his room to see it in operation. Plus the usual assortment of booths, user groups, and all around neat stuff. Most interesting aspect was the National Govenors Convention was being held in the same hotel, we sort of wondered why the Amiga folks rated all those security guards (or there were a LOT of hard of hearing people there ;-)) until we saw the NGA banner. Pretty interesting to get on the elevator at a computer show and have a bomb sniffing dog get on at the next floor. Regards, George -- During the last year, more people have seen Elvis than have seen Amiga ads, BUT - this is changing for the better ;-) ;-) ;-) UUCP: ucqais.uc.edu!ggibeau BBS: (513) 721-7977 GT NODE: 006/005 US Snail-Dept of Biology ML 06, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45221