WCCF (Was: VCF Midwest update?

Hmm... moral: never trust Wikipedia without doing your own homework! -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:03 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: WCCF (Was: VCF Midwest update? On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote: WRONG! WRONG! AMATEUR, INACCURATE SOURCE. That says that Comdex was a renaming/transformation of WCCF. THAT IS FALSE. Comdex started independently of WCCF in about 1981? (first that I went to (NOT the first one, it was already bigger than NCC) was 1983), and for about 10 years they were in active competition, with both getting larger and larger, and then WCCF stopped growing, but Comdex continued to get bigger for a while. WCCF was a dim remnant of its former glory when Interface Group (Comdex) finally bought it and killed it. I may very well be misrecollecting McGraw Hill v Prentice Hall. But Shelley Adelson was NOT EITHER. He owned the Sands, and built the Bellagio. He owned Comdex, and had the power to prevent exhibitors from renting meeting rooms anywhere in town, or sometimes even suites, without going through him. One taxi driver in Vegas said, "the reason there's no mafia in town any more is cause they're scared of Adelson" :-) In 1988? there was a trivial news story about some Interface Group execs who went to a "gentlemen's club", bought the "special bottle of wine", and didn't get laid; the place burned down the next day. Also, the 8th WCCF (1983) was NOT the last one. Maybe the last GOOD one. It continued to about 13th! In 1986, I started to exhibit at Comdex, and for quite a few years was exhibiting at BOTH. BTW, I have some Comdex show directories if anybody collects them. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com