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From: derek@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Derek J. LeLash)
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Subject: Re: Report on the Expo
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Date: 15 Aug 88 23:49:14 GMT
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Here are some of my subjective impressions, based on one day (Friday) of
hoofing around in the exhibition areas.

What was good:
- VideoWorks demos on giant Mitsubishi monitors.
- Colony, a game from MindScape (a must-buy for II-owning game players)
- SuperPaint 2
- the MegaZot card from MegaGraphics, which generated amazing Mandelbrot plots
- RasterOps' 24-bit color monitors (even if I couldn't bear to look at them :-)
- Symantec in general, and for an effective booth and neat contest.
- MacConnection, where you could buy all the neat stuff you saw everywhere else.

What was not-so-good:
- Microsoft's booth - it was not conducive to the small-group demos they wanted
- Many of the people staffing booths, especially of the larger companies, who
  acted more interested in selling things than in answering detailed questions.
- The person who demo-ed SuperPaint 2 (If only I'd had 5 minutes with it... :-)
- The weather...ACK! At least the air conditioning worked all day.
- Apple's presentation - I'd have rather seen more announcements of new stuff
  as opposed to celebrations of old, but I guess that can't be helped much.

Overall, I found the show to be much better put-together than I'd expected,
considering its size - congrats to the organizers. And special repeated kudos
to Rich Siegel and the Symantec people. The folks in our development team had
a number of questions and concerns about Symantec products, which I'm told
were well answered.

Derek

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