weiner@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Jeff Weiner) (10/11/90)
[I am posting this for John Barnes. Please give him your feedback, not me.
Reply to johnbarnes@enh.nist.gov, or post to the net. Thanks, weiner]
Feedback on WAACE Show
A number of people people from Netland attended the WAACE
AtariFest, held on 6 and 7 October 1990. There were approximately 34
vendors and a number of other developers who presented new products in
demonstration rooms and seminars.
The event was held in a hotel in suburban Reston, VA. A number
of vendor types stated that the show was better than the World of
Atari in Anaheim and others felt that it surpassed the combined
Glendale and San Jose shows as far as the volume of business that the
vendors did.
The organizers of the show would appreciate feedback on the
following points:
1). Did you find the show worthwhile?
2). Did you find the show too costly?
3). Was there an adequate information content?
4). Did you experience any operational rough spots?
5). Which seminars or demos did you like best?
This was the seventh effort put together by the WAACE team, but
it was the first one to use a hotel setting. Each new edition
presents its own problems, but it is nice to get input from users to
help make the next production better.
The WAACE group will be evaluating the feasibility of and the
format for a possible 1991 event over the next few weeks.
You may post the feedback answers publicly if you wish or you
may e-mail them to johnbarnes@enh.nist.gov.
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weiner@atari.archive.umich.edu "Ted, I fear that strange
Bet your ass I'm a wolverine... things are afoot at the CircleK"shipley@tron.UUCP (Bill Shipley) (10/12/90)
This post is in response to the WAACE AtariFest Questionaire. 1. I definitely thought the show was worthwhile. It's about the only place to find very much Atari related stuff these days. 2. Cost was not a problem. 3. I did not learn very much that was new to me except for some tidbits from developers about new products. The biggest disappointment(not your fault) was the lack of any new information from Atari. No indication of any plans on how they might revive interest in Atari computers in the U.S. 4. There were problems getting the overhead projection to work for some of the seminars I attended. This should have been worked out well ahead of time. Also some of the presenters had obviously not prepared anything in advance. I think you should make it clear that if someone agrees to make a presentation that they should have some idea of what they are going to discuss. Bob Brodie made a very polished presentation - unfortunatly the information content was nil. 5. The MIDI room provided the best presentations that I saw. They were obviously very well prepared. Bill Shipley
ALBERT_DAYES@bdt.UUCP (10/14/90)
The Big push is coming at the annual COMDEX show in November ... that is where ATari is supposed to Start a great marketing plan for the USA and North America in General.