3 Aug
2005
3 Aug
'05
7:23 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote:
Conversely, I -- like many of you, probably -- was too
young for the
original WCCF but attended Comdex during the dot-com heyday. I went every
year from 98-2003 (or maybe it was 2002, whichever was the final year).
Along with CES in January, Comdex filled up every hotel room in Vegas, had
mutliple hundreds (thousands?) of exhibitors, and probably neared 100,000
attendees in its biggest years of the late 1990s/early 2000s. Working for
Comdex's peak size was in about 1989.
By 1994, it was starting to shrink, but they kept inflating the published
numbers.
2003 was the end. I attended from 1983 - 2002, and exhibited 1986 - 1992
PC Week/eWeek, I got to attend a few of the famous
Spencer Katt parties.
But in those last two or three years, we all joked that could gauge the
show's success by the size of the cab lines, which went from intolerable to
a breeze.
Sorry for the OT, just reminiscing...
It's too bad that you missed the years with parties in the UNLV stadium
(Temptation, Mitch Rider, etc.)