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From: hrlaser@sactoh0 (Harv R. Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: GTC '89, no CBM
Message-ID: <987@sactoh0>
Date: 18 May 89 21:05:52 GMT
Organization: SAC-UNIX (Public Access), Sacramento, Ca.
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I just got back from a couple hours of schmoozing around on the
exhibits floor of something called "Government Technology
Conference", sort of a mini-Comdex being held in Sacramento, CA
(the state Capital) through May 19th. 

This expo features hi-tech exhibitors showing "solutions for
cooperative industry-government activities etc. etc. blah blah" -
basically yer computer and perhipheral vendors with their 
latest wares.  

A partial list of exhibitors (there were around 200 "booths")
included Amdahl, Apple, Apollo, Atari (!?), AT&T, Compaq, DEC,
Kodak, Epson, Grid, H-P, IBM, Irwin, Microsoft, Motorola, NCR, NEC,
Novell, Panasonic, Sun, Tandem, Unisys, Wang, Xerox, Zenith,
WordPerfect, and lots of others.  WordPerfect put on a good show,
throwing hats and keychains into the audience, and demoed some
stuff with their MS DOS version 5.0 that had me drooling. 

Unfortunately, Commodore was nowhere in sight. I didn't see a
single
Amiga anywhere on the exhibits floor.  The only time I even heard
the name "Amiga" mentioned was when the WordPerfect demonstrator
said "And we also run on hardware such as....."

<sigh>

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