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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: LA World of Commodore Show
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Date: 23 May 89 08:16:06 GMT
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The LA World of Commodore Show was a reall bummer in my opinion for a number
of reasons.

First of all nothing really new was shown; the only interesting things were
Music-X, which is (as usual) 3-weeks away from release (i.e, 3-months away 
or 3-years away, make your pick :-), and MINITEL, that does not run on an
Amiga.

The organization by the Hunter Group was terrible.  Friday the show was 
absolutely EMPTY: which Angelinos go to Downtown LA on Friday? NOBODY!!!

But the highlight (or more appropriately low-light) of the show was the cheap
sale held by Keith Masavage, Amiga Product Manager for Commodore U.S.A. sales
subsidiary right before dismantling CBM's booth.

Keith gave away at slashed prices software and hardware left from the User 
Group promotions, including a bunch of cheap VCRs.  Everybody knows that CBM
paid almost nothing for the User Group software (lots of companies ended up
losing money on that offer).  The spectacle was sad and humiliating to say the
least. It portrayed an image of CBM sales and marketing that is simply abysmal.
Hey, guys, why don't you THINK before doing such things of the impact that 
it can have on Commodore's image in the media.  Some comments I overheard were
to the effect of "Would you ever see IBM or Apple do something like THIS?". 

It was sad, really sad :-(

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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