Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!apple!amdahl!JUTS!ked01 From: ked01@ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore at SIGGRAPH (&& NewTek!) Message-ID: Date: 12 Aug 90 00:26:41 GMT References: <1990Aug11.001916.9035@lavaca.uh.edu> Reply-To: ked01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 27 In article <1990Aug11.001916.9035@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes: > > 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. OK ... I'm ready for a good laugh ... What was NewTek's "story" this time concerning actual availability? Price? Hopefully they have been able to come up with something more creative than: "It's in FCC testing" (where it has been for a year or two), or "DRAM prices are (still) too high" (which was worn out 18 months ago), or "We decided to re-engineer it to work on 3000's/2.0" (which means we can play this vapor- ware game all over again, whilst still keeping the market stifled). /kim -- UUCP: kim@uts.amdahl.com -OR- ked01@juts.ccc.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,uunet,oliveb,ames}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 BIX: kdevaughn GEnie: K.DEVAUGHN CIS: 76535,25