Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!QUCDNAST.BITNET!RICK From: RICK@QUCDNAST.BITNET (Rick Pim, The Bill The Cat Memorial Comput...) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: world of commodore show Message-ID: <8712090342.AA19323@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 22:40:00 EST Article-I.D.: jade.8712090342.AA19323 Posted: Tue Dec 8 22:40:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 19:00:51 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 37 Notes from the World of Commodore. I drove down to Toronto for the annual World of Commodore show last weekend. A few nice things were in evidence: last year you pretty much had to look to find Amiga stuff amongst the piles of C64 stuff; this year it was more or less the opposite. Nice. On the other hand, the main reason I went was to pick up some expansion ram for an A1000. There was only ONE card - a Spirit (I think) internal expansion. Phooey. Expansion for 500's and 2000's was in evidence, but not the 1000. And I was hoping for SOME sort of show special - there were at least three products there last year; I hoped for better this year. (Can you say 'orphan'?) Mandala was @i(very) impressive. Finally got to see Maxine Headroom... One product of interest: From Hypertek/Silicon Springs, a deinterlacer for a monochrome monitor. Plugs into the RGB output, it was producing absolutely gorgeous flicker-free gray scale output onto an almost-stock Commodore 1901 (?) mono monitor. Seemed to work with morerows, too, but I didn't get a chance to play. They said that the necessary alterations to the monitor were simple and easy. Total price (I don't know list, just show prices) of the box + monitor + alterations (they'd do it there) was $225 CDN. Has anyone heard anything (bad or good) about this little item? I'm contemplating trying to find the cash for an A1000 tradein and this would be a nice combo to plug into it. If.... Thats about it. Not particularly exciting, all things considered. And this is/was supposed to be the biggest computer show in Canada. Sigh. The frozen north does have its problems. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Think I'll stay in bed Rick Pim, Physics Department Dream all day Queen's University, Kingston World outside bugs me anyway. rick@qucdnast.bitnet