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    10-Oct-90  13:58:03
Sb: #CoCoFest Report
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: all

The CoCoFest in Atlanta turned out to be a success!  People said the turnout
seemed as large as the last Chicago fest, which isn't bad at all considering
the relative lack of advertising done.  The number of regulars from far away
places was incredible... lots of New Yorkers,  Floridians, and even some guys
from Holland! The hotel was totally filled up, altho some of that was from the
cheerleader competition (now are you sorry you didn't go? hehe).

The producers did a bang-up job... it looked exactly like a RainbowFest, altho
I wish they'd left out the loud public announcement system (which is the terror
of all fests ;-).  Lots of booths, and I wish I'd kept the handout with the
names of all the companies there (someone got a list?).  Burke&Burke showed up
from Washington state, in fact!

It was definitely an OS9 oriented show, or seemed that way to me and others.
The hardware highlight of course was the showing of the new machines: the MM/1,
PT68K4, and TC70/TC9.

They only had one large room set aside for seminars, which meant they sometimes
had to be cut short.  I watched bits of the Future-of-Rainbow one, and Bjork's
CoCo-History.  My own BS session lasted from 6pm-9pm Saturday night (failed to
set a record by 1/2 hour  :-)... I must congratulate all 400 people who stuck
around since I forgot to give breaks once in a while!  I think we'd have kept
on all night long if we hadn't all been without sleep for days.

I'd like to hear others' impressions of the fest... as always, my view was
somewhat limited.  But I thought it was one of the best.

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