until just a few years ago, Spring Comdex was held in Atlanta. They say it outgrew Atlanta, others say the IT Pros from up nawth didn't like coming down south, occasionally scheduling conflicts would push it in to June when it really started getting hot..
I went to it pretty much from 1983 to the last one here which I think was in 97 or 98.
My best memories were in the 80's when you could get all sorts of SWAG. You think there was SWAG in the past few years? You ain't seen nothing like the 80's. In '91 Billg had a huge first birthday party for Windows 3, free open bar between CNN Center and the Omni, then a concert by Chicago (ugh, get it??) in the Omni. There was the Win95 Beta Testers party in '95. A jazz concert by Phillipe Kahn in the early 90's (still have a CD). There were other grand excesses over the years.
Was able to talk to Jack Tramiel just after he took over Atari in when? 86?? Get snubbed by the late Phil Katz. Got a Dr. Dobbs' original logo Tshirt. Elephant Memory tshirt. PC Tech Journal yo-yo that I still have.
Ah, them's were the days...
And you know, there are always two sides on the coin. I had HUGE problems with various Linux distros some time ago on my desktop machine at home. It would freeze every once in a while (maybe every 2-3 hours or so) under X, no matter what I tried. I changed hardware, changed my motherboard, CPU, memory.. no change.. Finally I installed Windows 98 on it and I had no problems. Sure, typically it would be the other way around, but if you have had 100 blue screens of death in one day on a Windows box, remember that there are people who have had similar experiences with other OS's. It's nothing Microsoft specific.
Indeed. I have a machine here (pent. 133) that has coughed up big hairballs on Caldera, Mandrake, and Corel Linux. Various inconsistencies with network cards and video cards, and IDE CD-Rom drives kept giving me fits. Sometimes there would be a spontaneous reboot, sometimes a botched up video mode; for quite a while, Corel Linux hung on boot when it couldn't figure the CD-Rom out.
Win98 ran on it like a charm. 21 days ago, just for fun, I installed Whistler (the future Windows XP) which shouldn't even run on such a puny machine. Instead, it runs great. Not as fast as Linux, but then it has more to do (not to mention that I'm using the ClearType display driver which is just too cool) and it is only Beta 1.
The Source was one of the two main competitors of MicroNet/CompuServe. Can't remember what the other one was. The Source was popular among Atari and Apple owners, while CompuServe was pushed by the Shack. Commodore seemed to be pretty neutral.
Excellent article. Now, please consider changing your MS icon to something other than Bill as the Borg. Please. There's got to be other icons that could be used to express displeasure with Microsoft.
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until just a few years ago, Spring Comdex was held in Atlanta. They say it outgrew Atlanta, others say the IT Pros from up nawth didn't like coming down south, occasionally scheduling conflicts would push it in to June when it really started getting hot.. I went to it pretty much from 1983 to the last one here which I think was in 97 or 98. My best memories were in the 80's when you could get all sorts of SWAG. You think there was SWAG in the past few years? You ain't seen nothing like the 80's. In '91 Billg had a huge first birthday party for Windows 3, free open bar between CNN Center and the Omni, then a concert by Chicago (ugh, get it??) in the Omni. There was the Win95 Beta Testers party in '95. A jazz concert by Phillipe Kahn in the early 90's (still have a CD). There were other grand excesses over the years. Was able to talk to Jack Tramiel just after he took over Atari in when? 86?? Get snubbed by the late Phil Katz. Got a Dr. Dobbs' original logo Tshirt. Elephant Memory tshirt. PC Tech Journal yo-yo that I still have. Ah, them's were the days...
And you know, there are always two sides on the coin. I had HUGE problems with various Linux distros some time ago on my desktop machine at home. It would freeze every once in a while (maybe every 2-3 hours or so) under X, no matter what I tried. I changed hardware, changed my motherboard, CPU, memory.. no change.. Finally I installed Windows 98 on it and I had no problems. Sure, typically it would be the other way around, but if you have had 100 blue screens of death in one day on a Windows box, remember that there are people who have had similar experiences with other OS's. It's nothing Microsoft specific. Indeed. I have a machine here (pent. 133) that has coughed up big hairballs on Caldera, Mandrake, and Corel Linux. Various inconsistencies with network cards and video cards, and IDE CD-Rom drives kept giving me fits. Sometimes there would be a spontaneous reboot, sometimes a botched up video mode; for quite a while, Corel Linux hung on boot when it couldn't figure the CD-Rom out. Win98 ran on it like a charm. 21 days ago, just for fun, I installed Whistler (the future Windows XP) which shouldn't even run on such a puny machine. Instead, it runs great. Not as fast as Linux, but then it has more to do (not to mention that I'm using the ClearType display driver which is just too cool) and it is only Beta 1.
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The Source was one of the two main competitors of MicroNet/CompuServe. Can't remember what the other one was. The Source was popular among Atari and Apple owners, while CompuServe was pushed by the Shack. Commodore seemed to be pretty neutral.
Excellent article. Now, please consider changing your MS icon to something other than Bill as the Borg. Please. There's got to be other icons that could be used to express displeasure with Microsoft.