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Subject: world of commodore show
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Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 22:40:00 EST
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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.
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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