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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Commodore at SIGGRAPH (&& NewTek!)
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Date: 11 Aug 90 00:19:16 GMT
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Wow.  Wow.  Wow.

Loads of A3000's, in a booth equivalent to Sun or any other workstation
class vendor.  They were showing Disney's Animation package, Animation
Station (I think it was AS.  It had Bezier curve based animation and
"spines" for objects), ASDG stuff, X software, etc.  It was way cool.

NewTek had a large booth, showing the VideoToaster live and in action.
They had a unit you could play with ("keep it away from that guy over
there in the suit" the woman who let me look at the card told me.
Later examination of his badge showed he was from Sony. :-)  They
also had a 4d rendering package (Imagine?  Is that from NewTek?)
being demoed; and, of course, the Penn and Teller demo tape.

Lots of people were crowded around both the CBM and NewTek booths.
What I overheard the most: "That's the educational cost.  What's the
*real* cost for us end users.  You're kidding.  That's the
*retail* cost?"

Also, I ran into two salesgoons from the local (and only) Amiga
dealership.  It was a pleasant surprise.

--
J. Eric Townsend -- University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120
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