neat you should scan those and put em up on bit savers or somthing On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 3:56 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: > > were the decus confrinces ever held in multi level parking garages? keep > > hearing a story of one that was so big it took over one. door prize was a > > rainbow 100 my dad won in 79 80?? tells me he got a membership when he > was > > a teen i the early 70's after hanging out with the nasa guys in the 60's > in > > town who used to run experiments up in northern manitoba > > Congratulations. THAT is a great prize! > > > I never attended any confrinces, but a lot of conferences and exhibitions. > > > National Computer Conference was one of the first ones, started in 1951, > under the name Joint Computer Conference. > 1968 was Engelbart's "The Mother Of All Demos" > In 1973, it became National Computer Conference. > Anaheim in 1983 was a big one. S'posedly a couple of people died from the > heat in the "tents" (temporary buildings, because it overflowed the > convention facilities) > > > CeBIT (Hanover Germany) was the largest. Started in 1970; ended? in 2018. > Sorry, I have little or no information about it; I never got a chance to > go. > > > One of the next early ones was "The West Coast Computer Faire". > Started by Jim Warren (also known for Silicon Gulch Gazette, and role > in starting mumerous other publications) Jim Warren used to roll around > the show on roller skates. > > First one of WCCF was in 1977 in Brooks Hall and Civic Auditorium in San > Francisco. It included intro of AppleII and Commodore PET. > > (All discussion of "FIRST" between TRS80, Commodore PET, and APPLE2 is > essentially meaningless, as they were for all practical purposes TIED, and > "FIRST" is based on WHICH aspect you consider important.) > > Second was in San Jose, (1978) > Third was in Los Angeles, (1978) > Fourth was back in SF. (1979) (first one that I exhibited in), and intro > of VisiCalc > Fifth (1980) included intro of Microsoft SoftCard > Sixth (1981) included Osborne 1 > A spin-off was the West Coast PC Faire. > But, Apple stopped exhibiting at WCCF, and "any show [other than Comdex] > that also has PC-based exhibits". > In 1983, Jim Warren sold out to Prentice Hall, who sold to Shelly Adelson > (Comdex, and Las Vegas hotels). WCCF declined. > At "SOG" ("Semi-Official Gathering" put on by Micro-Cornucopia), we > presented Jim Warren with a pair of skates and told him that it was time > to put them back on. > WCCF declined rapidly and ended with 16th in 1991? > > > Comdex started in 1979 (Las Vegas), by Shelly Adelson, and by the mid > 1980s, Comdex Las Vegas became the largest USA show. > It filled ALL of the convention halls of all of the hotels that had > convention halls, with shuttle buses between them (Hilton, Riviera, MGM, > Sahara, Tropicana, Caesar's Palace, Sands, etc.) > $39.95 hotel rooms bumped their rates to $140+ and sold out. > Smallest booth size was 10x10. But, because of an ERROR in drawing the > floorplan, a couple of years, I was able to get a 7x7! > Some, including Microsoft, set up micro-booths within their > "pavilion" booths to rent out to many small affiliated companies. > It spun-off Spring Comdex (Atlanta?) and some international shows. > It declined, and Travel complications for international attendees were BAD > in 2001 (post 9/11), and the show RAPIDLY declined and closed in 2003. > I still have some miscellaneous copies of the show guide/directory from a > number of years. > >