IEEE '97: After The Show
News Date : 11 March, 1997
News Source: Lee Stanford, North Alabama Society of Amiga Users
We would like to thank Danny Wong of Toysoft and Prowave for providing software and demonstration time at the NASAU booth. Danny Wong, author of AirMail, sent us a copy of the commercial release to demo. Let me say that if you use MUI on your Amiga, this is the email program to have! Danny has developed this versatile application into a comprehensive and competitive product that is worth buying. Prowave gave excellent demonstrations of the Amiga and its use in video productions. Their setup was stealing crowds from all the other user group booths at IEEE and it still amazes us when someone inevitably says, "Amigas can do that!?" Another comment that we enjoyed came from a former Amiga user who said, "It's nice to see that a machine that has been through all of the trouble that the Amiga has seen can still turn heads at a computer show". And, not to be left out, the Eric Schwartz CD (which was running almost the whole show) attracted so many passers-by that I often had to play the same animation twice in a row so everyone could see it. Eric, you still got it.
So what is the verdict for NASAU at IEEE '97? Another success, of course. Many people were not aware that Amigas are still in production, let alone still available as new purchases. We fixed that. Many Amiga owners who put their trusty 2000s into the closet a few years ago so they could buy a computer that would connect to the internet have now set those same Amigas back up with PD internet software we provided. We even had a few Apple and Microsoft sales people come up to us and say "we didn't think you guys still existed." -- WE FIXED THAT.