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[Mal Brown]

This is lighting year for me so I’m making the trip.  Software and instruments.   

Need to visit with Soundcraft for a bit as being an SI guy, I have questions, though I don’t really expect answers...

Other than that..  a few bass booths and I’m outta there Friday night.  2 days is as much Namm as I can take ;-).  My commiserations for those of you working. 
I did both Comdex and CES for several years. Summer and Winter.  Can’t say that I miss it - well other than the Sanyo girls but I’m way past that ;-)

[Tim Hite]

Oh man, I'd forgotten about COMDEX. What a debacle that turned into. Had to work it for several years.

I'm surprised you didn't do LDI for lighting.

This is lighting year for me so I’m making the trip.  Software and instruments.   

Need to visit with Soundcraft for a bit as being an SI guy, I have questions, though I don’t really expect answers...

Other than that..  a few bass booths and I’m outta there Friday night.  2 days is as much Namm as I can take ;-).  My commiserations for those of you working. 
I did both Comdex and CES for several years. Summer and Winter.  Can’t say that I miss it - well other than the Sanyo girls but I’m way past that ;-)

[Mal Brown]

I was working for a consumer audio and computer rep firm early in my career.  Led me to a software VAR, then a development house and that got me out of the trade show biz... thank the heavens.

 Comdex... first was the best.  In a ballroom of an Atlantic City, NJ hotel.  Some guys with a terminal emulation package for CPM, DOS ?  Had replaced the tube in a VT-100 with a fish tank...   it all went downhill from there ;-)

[Scott Holtzman]

I was working for a consumer audio and computer rep firm early in my career.  Led me to a software VAR, then a development house and that got me out of the trade show biz... thank the heavens.

 Comdex... first was the best.  In a ballroom of an Atlantic City, NJ hotel.  Some guys with a terminal emulation package for CPM, DOS ?  Had replaced the tube in a VT-100 with a fish tank...   it all went downhill from there ;-)

Mal, let's try and meet at NAMM

[John Roberts {JR}]

I was working for a consumer audio and computer rep firm early in my career.  Led me to a software VAR, then a development house and that got me out of the trade show biz... thank the heavens.

 Comdex... first was the best.  In a ballroom of an Atlantic City, NJ hotel.  Some guys with a terminal emulation package for CPM, DOS ?  Had replaced the tube in a VT-100 with a fish tank...   it all went downhill from there ;-)

I think I attended that show... ( early 70s?)... IIRC there was a young Bill Gates there too, but back then he was just some unknown geeky kid...   

JR

[Scott Holtzman]

I think I attended that show... ( early 70s?)... IIRC there was a young Bill Gates there too, but back then he was just some unknown geeky kid...   

JR

My first Comdex was in Atlanta, early 80's.  No Bill Gates but MS had BASIC, COBOL and Fortran for CP/M

Met Gates and Woz at the Trenton Amateur Computer Festival in NY in 1979.  My Dad would not let me go alone, he suffered through the whole event (was not a tech guy).

On the way back his advice to me was if I really wanted to get into computers no businessman would have anything to do without those pot smoking hippy freaks (his words not mine).  He told me the IBM, NCR, Burroughs and maybe Wang were names trusted by business.

I had fun reminding him of that over the years.

[Tim McCulloch]

My first Comdex was in Atlanta, early 80's.  No Bill Gates but MS had BASIC, COBOL and Fortran for CP/M

Met Gates and Woz at the Trenton Amateur Computer Festival in NY in 1979.  My Dad would not let me go alone, he suffered through the whole event (was not a tech guy).

On the way back his advice to me was if I really wanted to get into computers no businessman would have anything to do without those pot smoking hippy freaks (his words not mine).  He told me the IBM, NCR, Burroughs and maybe Wang were names trusted by business.

I had fun reminding him of that over the years.

And of those 4, IBM is still an independent company, NCR has been bought & sold at least 2x, and Burroughs and Wang are no longer in business.  Dad was 35% right!

[Mal Brown]

IBM... Oh MN... How many software companies did they kill through acquisition ?  Somehow CA survived...only one I was glad for was Lotus.  Lotus Notes was an integration nightmare for me for like 2 years...

[John Roberts {JR}]

And of those 4, IBM is still an independent company, NCR has been bought & sold at least 2x, and Burroughs and Wang are no longer in business.  Dad was 35% right!

A bunch of those pot smoking hippy companies went out of business too. Apple didn't exactly have a smooth ride (still) and IBM has turned to financial engineering to boost stock prices with stock buybacks, so their future is somewhat uncertain too.

I am disappointed by IBM's failure to fully exploit the personal computer business that fell into their lap when it was still embryonic decades ago. They stayed invested in big mainframes too long (IMO).

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Speaking of Atlantic city back in the 70s that was before casino gambling so it was pretty much a sh__ hole, faded summer beach resort.

I was working in CT at the time so a few of us drove down for the day, and it didn't take that much time to see the exhibits. It took longer to drive down and back.

JR

[John L Nobile]

My first Comdex was in Atlanta, early 80's.  No Bill Gates but MS had BASIC, COBOL and Fortran for CP/M

Met Gates and Woz at the Trenton Amateur Computer Festival in NY in 1979.  My Dad would not let me go alone, he suffered through the whole event (was not a tech guy).

On the way back his advice to me was if I really wanted to get into computers no businessman would have anything to do without those pot smoking hippy freaks (his words not mine).  He told me the IBM, NCR, Burroughs and maybe Wang were names trusted by business.

I had fun reminding him of that over the years.

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