CompuSale Computer Show review
Robert Brockway
rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 29 22:01:27 UTC 2004
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, James Knott wrote:
> One way to get around that, is to go on Friday, with a coupon that,
> along with a business card, gets you in for free. However, the show's
> nowhere near what it used to be years ago. When I first started going,
After finishing my Linux intro talks (I did one each day) a couple of
people made the same comment to me.
> ComputerFest was held down on Queen's Quay and there was a lot of CP/M
> and S-100 bus stuff. The Radio Shack Color Computer was a new product!
Ah memories. I used to run OS-9 on the CoCo. It is a somewhat Unix like
real-time OS. It still exists as OS-9000.
> I bought my first copy of OS/2 at a ComputerFest. In it's earlier
> years, it was quite interesting and you could learn a lot. Now, it just
> seems to be a search for the lowest price. At least they still have the
> chocolate and peanut covered ice cream. ;-)
I recall reading that Linus Torvalds remarked a couple of years ago that
the only serious Linux events left were Linux.conf.au and the Ottawa Linux
Symposium. Others may disagree but I think there is no doubt many
computer events have become very light.
> However, with all those non-computer items being sold, I'm beginning to
> feel the show's overpriced, even with free admission. :-(
I felt the presence of the non-computer stuff was odd, and I thought
maybe another event was sharing the hall :)
On the plus side I spoke to quite a few people after my talks who
indicated the intention to start using Linux. I recommended joining
the TLUG list to quite a few people.
Cheers,
Rob
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