Re: Quick AmiWest Report (fwd)

[Robert Bernardo <rbernardo@iglou.com>]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Larry Anderson wrote:

> Vendor turnout was a tad on the sparse side this year, though the good news
> is Amiga OS 4 is FINALLY released, now it seems the wait (for many) is on a
> G4 architecture computer to better run it on.

	Yes, Eyetech has to do another production run of boards so that more 
AmigaOnes can be built.  Otherwise, AmigaOnes would have been snapped up 
immediately at AmiWest.

> Took a few minutes and visited with Robert and heard of his magical
> Commodore Tour across North America and marvelled at his C1 baseball cap
> (Baseball? hmm..  I think, it's a sport some people play... OUTSIDE!)

	Hey, there were baseball games for the Commodore!  :-)

> ...and all the Commodore wonders in his trunk.

	Yesterday I went to Fremont (southeast of San Francisco) and grabbed 
another carload of C= stuff from a gentleman who is emptying his house of the 
C= materials.  Thursday it's up to Carson City, Nevada to pick up another C= 
collection.

> Robert snagged a 3-D camera (I suspect news of future show reports from 
> Robert in 3-D!).

	Hard to view 3-D prints on the Web!  ;-)

> As for the show there were a few Amiga groups and companies (The guys behind
> Amiga OS, PageStream, LightWave, etc) in attendance, one users group came
> all the way from Arizona.

	I thought they came from Houston, Texas.

> From the looks of Saturday it was a jovial
> gathering, but sure wish there was more people (hmmm, maybe they should
> include Commodore 8-bitters in the ranks we could surely boost the west
> coast numbers! :-)

	A Las Vegas C= Expo would be nice.  :-)

> After the show closed up for the Saturday Robert and I left stuff for Jeri
> with Jens and then we left (partly prompted by some crazed bicycle riding
> stone-smashing guy who was wandering awfully close to our cars. - I kid you 
> not!)  All in all it was a nice time.

	Yes, he rides up, he picks up a large, decorative stone by the hotel, 
he smashes it against the ground, he rides away....  hmmm!  Part of his 
training?  ;-)

> Upcoming classic computing related West Coast events are:
>
> the Classic Games Expo in San Jose - August 21st and 22nd
> http://www.cgexpo.com/

	We'll have a table there.

> and the Vintage Computer Festival (7th year!)
> at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View

	And we'll have a table at that one, too.

> now rescheduled for Early October (2nd & 3rd)
> http://www.vintage.org/2004/main/

	Darn!  I was planning a Commodore costume for when CGE was originally 
scheduled on the Halloween weekend.

					Nice report, Larry!
					Robert Bernardo
					Fresno Commodore User Group
					http://videocam.net.au/fcug