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- From: hrlaser@netcom.com (H.R. Laser)
- Subject: AT @ CES? Dunno.. will find out
- Message-ID: <hrlaserDKKDoE.805@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 17:24:14 GMT
- Sender: hrlaser@netcom22.netcom.com
-
- Greetings.. I am in Vegas for the Winter Consumer Electronics
- Show (runs Jan 4-8). As of now I still don't know if Amiga Tech
- will attend/show at this expo. I've emailed them 3 times to ask
- and gotten no answer :(
-
- If they are here, I will find them and will report on whazzup.
-
- BTW, for the historically inclined, the CES in 1985 was the
- world premiere of the Amiga computer. RJ Mical and Dale Luck (and
- others perhaps) flew the original breadboarded Amiga from Los Gatos
- to Vegas to show the technology here. They even bought the
- boards its own airplane seat so itwould not be manhandled as
- luggage or freight cargo.
-
- This tale is archived somewhere but I forget what file it's in
- or what magazine issue it was in. Perhaps some Amiga historian with
- better memory than me (Dan Barrett.. yoo hoo :) might remember.
-
- CES is expected to attract 90,000+ folks. It's the second largest
- USA trade show, after COMDEX. It will occupy all of the LVCC nd
- Sands Expo Centers, and a couple other ballrooms in hotels.
-
- Although there is a lot of computer action at CES, it is not 99%
- computers like COMDEX is. It covers the whole gamut of home and
- consumer electronics - any gizmo you can think of: computers,
- game platform machines, video, high and low end and car audio,
- basically anything you can go to a Circuit City or Best Buy
- and buy is shown at CES before the new models are released.
- A fun show :)
-
- Harv | "Do you recognize the
- harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- hlaser@eworld.com <--- Newton mail only! | - Leon Russell
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