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Comdex Operators File for Bankruptcy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-about-the-pentiums-baby dept.

VileScum writes "According to this article in The Australian, Los Angeles-based Key3Media Group, the company operating the giant Comdex trade show, filed for protection from its creditors yesterday in the United States Bankruptcy Court. Does this mean I have to start buying cloths again instead of getting them at trade shows?" Also see a story in The New York Times. Concerns of bankruptcy were voiced last November.

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  1. cloths? by jd81eldo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got a few free shirts at Comdex, but I never saw a booth giving out free cloths

    1. Re:cloths? by Bob+Vila's+Hammer · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think the 'cloths' he is referring to are handed out for the 'overexcited', 'premature', hot-new-gear related 'testicle accidents' that happen at such trade shows. Its a shame, comdex going down, those dead or alive 3 cloths are hard to find otherwise.

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    2. Re:cloths? by K8Fan · · Score: 3, Funny

      Most of my T-shirts are from trade shows. Now I just need the booth weasles to start throwing pants out to the crowd. Some socks and underware would be nice too.

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  2. This is just a protective move by Hairy_Potter · · Score: 4, Funny

    to protect them against an incipient class action lawsuit by inexperienced geeks who were tramautized by picking up "girls" in Las Vegas with large Adam's Apples during the last Comdex.

  3. Get your clothes at Adultdex instead by YeOldeGnurd · · Score: 4, Funny
    The sex industry is recession-proof. I'm sure Adultdex isn't going under.

    Oh, but I guess they don't do clothing there, do they. Darn.

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    1. Re:Get your clothes at Adultdex instead by peekitty · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well no, but some cloths might come in handy.

    2. Re:Get your clothes at Adultdex instead by gadget+junkie · · Score: 2, Funny

      You know, I used to believe that. then I bought Mustang Ranch at the IPO.

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    3. Re:Get your clothes at Adultdex instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      They may not be going under, but they sure are "going down".

  4. noooo!! by borgdows · · Score: 5, Funny

    Computer industry will be doomed without the yearly 'Bill Gates COMDEX Keynote' !! ;-)

  5. I steal all my cloths by duffbeer703 · · Score: 2, Funny

    From restaurants. You can get dishtowels, napkins and tablecloths.

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  6. Yay, no more junk mail. by OppressiveGiant · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope this means I stop getting email from key3media asking me to register for the next comdex.

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  7. No, he meant cloths by 91degrees · · Score: 2, Funny

    I regularly spill coffee while at work. While a T-shirt is rather a nice thing to get, the utility of a cloth is much greater, and those companies that give them away are more likely to get my custom.

  8. Where were all the Comdex is dieing posts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I went to my first Comdex in 1983 or so. Apple II computers ruled, IBM was a novelty, then the next year IBM ruled. I stood right next to Bill Gates waiting for the exhibit hall to open one morning, and it didn't seem so awesome. Maybe I should have asked him for an autograph.

  9. Look at it this way: by tmark · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this mean I have to start buying cloths again instead of getting them at trade shows?

    On the other hand, while you might not be getting your clothes at Comdex, you are proportionately less likely to get beat up on the street for wearing said clothes and so baldly advertising your geekiness.

  10. Re:Comdex Memories by grub · · Score: 2, Funny


    Long ago, before I had a Real Job(tm), I helped out at one of the very first comdexes to earn money to buy crusts of dry bread.

    RMS is that you? Oh wait you mention having a job..

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  11. Re:I'm amazed too. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    This isn't school, this is /.
    Hey - new masthead!

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  12. Re:Conventions are doomed anyway by Dun+Malg · · Score: 2, Funny
    They pefrom a safety inspection on the wire, i.e. cutting it into tiny bits if it is a crappy extension cord

    Heh. As an electrician and former member of the electricians union in Vegas (IBEW 357) I got to set up a few of these shows. When you see some nimrod powering a bank of 500W halogen spotlights off a 14-gauge Wal-Mart extension cord and wondering where that smell of burning plastic is coming from, you'd do the same thing. I had trouble not trying to strangle them with it afterwards, myself.

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  13. Re:Comdex Memories by bob670 · · Score: 2, Funny
    The average consumer doesn't actually do his market research...he asks the sales person in the store, and thus buys something way overpriced/over-spec'd for what he wants.
    This explains why my dad has a Dual PIV Xeon running 2 terrabytes of storage and Windows 2003 beta for his new desktop. Damn BestBuy sales drones.
  14. Underware? by $rtbl_this · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that the stuff that turns into hardware if you don't wash it for weeks, or wetware when you get overexcited?

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