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From: klm@munsell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MARCA show (was: New Commodore Products Admitted To)
Message-ID: <1387@squeaker.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 19:01:30 EST
Article-I.D.: squeaker.1387
Posted: Tue Nov 17 19:01:30 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Nov-87 05:24:59 EST
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Reply-To: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin [Being Weird Isn't Enough] McBride)
Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA
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In article <8711161929.AA08759@decwrl.dec.com> plouff@nac.dec.com (16-Nov-1987 1405) writes:
>
>    At the rather dissapointing MARCA fair in Marlborough, Mass. this 
>    weekend, a "meet Commodore" session turned into discussion of new 
>    Amiga products (also C-64, omitted here).

Well, since somebody else brought it up, I guess I'll toss in my $.02.
People on the shaky coast can ignore this, you've probably never heard
of MARCA, and you probably never will again.

Ahem, the MARCA show (Nov. 14-15 at the Park West Hotel in Marlborough, MA)
was, to say the very least, extremely disappointing.  Compared to last
year's show, the place was dead.  Part of that I think can be blamed on the
fact that this show was riding hard on the heels of COMDEX, and a lot of
people who might ordinarily have gone to a local show were just too burned
out from COMDEX to bother.

Very few vendors were there.  There weren't as many special seminars and
presentations as last year.  There weren't as many attendees there either.

Conspicuously absent:  ASDG, and one of the big local dealers, Omnitek.
	Perry, what gives?  You were real big at MARCA last year!

Of the dealers that were there, I sensed suppressed hostility from all
the ones I asked about the A1000 - A2000 upgrade.  They became very
cold, and then they suddenly were talking to someone else, like I didn't
even exist.  Is that any way to treat a potential customer?  I went there
with cash in my pocket.  Because of the way I was treated, I didn't spend
any of it.

Charlie Heath was rumored to be there, but I never saw him.  I was hoping
to be able to ask him something.  Somebody at the Commodore booth was going
to introduce me to Rich Miner.  Never saw him either.  Rich, if you read
this, Hello.  What's your e-mail address?

Last year, I went to the MARCA show and left an AMIGA owner.

This year, I went to the MARCA show and left disappointed and a little upset
at myself that I had actually wasted two hours of driving time to go there.

-- 
Kevin McBride, the guy in the brace //       | It's the end of the world
Eikonix - A Kodak Co.              //        |   as we know it,
Billerica, MA                  \\ //  Amiga  | 
{encore,adelie}!munsell!klm     \X/   Rules! | And I feel fine...