From: s924666@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Voyager 666)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: [*] Review Home Computer Show. (Melb, Australia)
Date: 15 Nov 1992 14:19:57 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious) writes:

>Am I the first ?

Yep. I went on Friday and was going to put up a review but
minyos blew up ... again.

>Well, it was smallish, not as big as some shows have been.

It was very smallish. The map in the Green Guide was a bit of a deception.
I planned with some friends that it would take some 1.5 hours to go through
the whole show, it took 40 mins, and seemed as though there were a few things
missing. The stands were a bit small, even the larger areas were cramped
and not because of the excess amount of people.

>There were plenty of reps around, but nothing amazingly wonderful.

That's for sure. I mean, how many of them knew what they were on about?
You could just see their looks, greedy for sales, "I wonder how much
commission I would get" type of look. Service was, umm, err, well ...
tucking ferrible.

>No, there was no 4000, maxwells had a 3000T displayed. Lotsa
>nice demos running, and not that many IBM clones actually. Tonnes
>of software, etc, and a few user groups. 

M*xw#lls as usual never cease to amaze me. My only sighting of an A4000,
was on a piece of paper on a desk, and of course the Acorn A4000 (I got
sucked in for a whole 2 seconds, ie. "Oh WOW! An A4000! Oh ... Acorn"
Tones of software, yep, at discounted prices of $60. And every 2nd IBM
clone running video blaster. All with videos playing movies or cool graphics
which sucked most people in, "Oh wow look at what that computer is doing!
What great animation!". So being an Amiga loyalist, I went along and
either fast forwarded the videos or stopped them. It took some of the sales
reps a few minutes to work out what had happened.

>There was a Melbourne Uni Comp Sci exam next door at the same time, 
>so it may have filled up in the afternoon/evening.

>LOTSA little people. There was the "game" arcade section, etc, but
>otherwise, it looked err, immature.

Yeah I got a little go at an Atari Lynx, once I found the power switch
of course.

>(ie, in a few years it will be better.)

Can't get much worse!!!
The unix conference was by far the most professional and included good
service, knowledgable people, and free food! Then come PC92, a bigger
version of HCS, but with some knowledgable people.

>One thing to note, there was a Falcon there. Yes, it looked nice, 
>and the demos were impressive. I'm not all that sure on how stable
>the OS is, as when I spoke to one of the reps, he said that TOS 4.01
>was almost released which had Multitasking in it. (He then argued
>with another rep as to wether it really was working,etc.) Atari
>said that Dick Smith would carry it, etc, but they need to learn a
>thing about presenation.

Atari were the only people that had the correct way of advertising there.
They made lotsa noise, people came around, and then the Falcon show started.
Falcon ... one ugly machine. It's like the Amiga is the pretty alter ego,
and the Falcon is the bad ugly side (looks like an ST).
The sound was good of course. Nothing about DSP, which I though was what
they were going to blow away the 4000 with. And, AND! And the so called
all_purpose_windows_workbench_ass_kicking_Atari_GUI_or_TOS_or_whatever_
the_sales_dudes_said was kind like an aborted foetus of a mac classic
windows system.

[Adventures of mentally stimulating talk with sales rep. ^Hed or ^?ed]

>Lotsa stock lyign around at supposed show specials, there were v.32bis austel
>approved modems for $620, and a few other toys.

>All in all, I feel that the organizsers over projected for what they
>thought was going to happen (it was when I was there) - but it may
>change on Sat, or in the evening. ($9 worth? Naah.)

Well Friday to me, was a total disappointment, but I'm not one of the
organisers. Definitely not $9 worth, I paid $6 with the GG thingy, couldn't
get a free ticket. The ticket was very cheap, ie. one of those crappy
raffle type tickets.

I'm extremely pissed off that I registered, now I'll get all this crap
in the mail.

I guess the above winge was too late to help anyone, but I needed it.

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- Tung

Oh yeah, here are some sigs to put in that 4000 petition you were doing:


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